{"id":25820,"date":"2013-01-17T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T20:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2013\/01\/17\/tags-and-filters-in-ansys-mechanical-14-5\/"},"modified":"2022-12-07T06:58:05","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T13:58:05","slug":"tags-and-filters-in-ansys-mechanical-14-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.padtinc.com\/2013\/01\/17\/tags-and-filters-in-ansys-mechanical-14-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Tags and Filters in ANSYS Mechanical 14.5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"image\"<\/a>I have been doing this simulation thing for too long. I actually got giddy when I saw a new icon in 14.5.\u00a0 That usually is enough to get me going. Then when I saw it allowed me to put tags on items in my model tree, the OCD part of me got very interested. When it became apparent that it all worked with filtering, I got downright joyful.\u00a0 These are the sort of little tools that can make your analysis process a lot more enjoyable and efficient. And to be honest, these are the things that we used to use APDL to control in the old days, and that we have needed a GUI equivalent for in ANSYS Mechanical.\u00a0 In this week’s posting, we will look at the new tagging, and then take an in-depth look at what you can do with filtering.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both of these tools are ways for you to get a handle on larger models.\u00a0 When you have one or two parts in an assembly and maybe four or five loads and boundary conditions, you can see all of your model in the tree in one quick glance. But when you are dealing with a big assembly, with dozens if not hundreds of parts, contacts, boundary conditions, etc\u2026 it can become overwhelming, and you spend all of your time looking through the tree. And thanks to the hard work of the ANSYS development team,\u00a0 Filters and Tags come to the rescue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So the cute new little icon is a picture of a tag, and it is used to tag things. I like it when things are that literal. Do note that it is used to tag items in your model outline, not geometric entities. Why? Because you have named selections for that.  This is for grouping things that are not groupable with named selections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you click on the Tag icon, it brings up the Tags window.\u00a0 It looks like the default state for this window is free and floating. I found that it goes nicely under the details window, or as a tab under the model tree itself. If you are not familiar with how to move windows around in ANSYS Mechanical, here is a short video:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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