Identifying specific element numbers in meshes

Hi there

I'm using Karamba for performing calculations on a shell mesh generated by the 'Mesh Breps'-component.

I would like to distinguish specific elements visually in the mesh; e.g. in the screen shot below I have identified the element undergoing the largest absolute moment as element 109.

My problem is, that I can't reference element 109 anywhere, as the data structure of the Elem-output seems rather dummy-like.

The element tagging of the 'ModelView'-component can't help either, as a mesh currently counts as one single element.
Any suggestions?

Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Karamba3D on June 9, 2015 at 12:09am

Hi,

the results of the S-Force component come in a tree structure: each branch corresponds to a shell patch, the order of results within each branch corresponds to the order of the faces of the shell mesh. The shell meshes can be retrieved from the 'DisassembleModel'-component. You could use this to map the results to the shell faces.

Best,

Clemens

Permalink Reply by Daniel Kolling Andersen on June 9, 2015 at 4:37am

Sorry Clemens, but I still don't know how to manoeuvre the output data.

How can I recover and split the triangles/faces into one separate list with one active item per triangle/face?