Dynaform Select element or surfaces by dragging

Select Elements or Surfaces by Dragging the Window Preprocess Date: Jan... Outline When the users select surfaces or select elements, they can now directly select surfaces or elements

Select Elements or

Surfaces by Dragging

the Window Preprocess

Date: Jan 8th, 2014

Outline

When the users select surfaces or select elements, they can now directly select surfaces or elements by dragging the window without clicking the drag window icon first

Description

In the previous version, if the selected type was Pick Surface (Select Surfaces window)

or Element (Select Elements window) illustrated in Figure 1 and Figure 3, the user could

only select surfaces or elements by cursor one by one See Figure 2

Figure 1

Figure 2

Figure 3

Description

•  In DYNAFORM 5.9.2, even though the selected type is Pick Surface (Select Surfaces

window) or Element (Select Elements window), the user can select surfaces or elements by

dragging the window See Figure 5

•  Note: In all the places where the user needs to select surfaces or elements, they can directly select surfaces or elements by dragging the window

The user can directly select surfaces

or elements by drag window

Figure 4

Figure 5

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Procedure

Figure 7

1.  Open the included df file named Select_surfaces_elements.df

2.  Go to UserSetup-> Preprocess See Figure 7

3.  Select the Elem tab in the Preprocess window See Figure 8

4.  Click the Delete button on the Elem tab, and it will pop up the dialog box, as illustrated

in Figure 9

5.  Left-click the mouse and drag the cursor directly to select elements by dragging the

window See Figure 10

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