{"id":6641,"date":"2013-08-07T08:33:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T15:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Simcenter-Blog\/Femap-Tips-amp-Tricks-Entity-ID-Contouring-for-Model-Checking\/ba-p\/3180"},"modified":"2026-03-26T06:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:00:58","slug":"femap-tips-tricks-entity-id-contouring-for-model-checking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/femap-tips-tricks-entity-id-contouring-for-model-checking\/","title":{"rendered":"Femap Tips &#038; Tricks: Entity ID Contouring for Model Checking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.siemens.com\/plm\/femap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Femap<\/A> has a lot of visualization tools that can be used to verify the model. For example it\u2019s possible to assign colors to entity IDs allowing a quick visual check of the numbering scheme of the model. In this tips and tricks video you\u2019ll see a couple of ways to verify the entity ID numbering of a model through color assignment.<\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<div class=\"lia-vid-container video-embed-center lia-video-unavailable\">\n<div id=\"lia-vid-k4NjJ0ZDq-WgBHIRxymh5WpJ1VQtop1Jw400h300r985\" class=\"lia-video-ooyala-player-container\">\n<div class=\"lia-video-status-message\">This video is currently being processed. Please try again in a few minutes.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"video-embed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/video\/gallerypage\/video-id\/k4NjJ0ZDq-WgBHIRxymh5WpJ1VQtop1J\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(view in My Videos)<\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Femap has a lot of visualization tools that can be used to verify the model. For example it\u2019s possible to assign colors to entity IDs allowing a quick visual check of the numbering scheme of the mode&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61582,"featured_media":6642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,182],"tags":[5],"industry":[],"product":[501],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-tips-tricks","tag-cae-simulation","product-simcenter-femap"],"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/EntityID_Tip_110x110.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61582"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6643,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6641\/revisions\/6643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=6641"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/simcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=6641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}