Jörg 29 Report post Posted May 8, 2013 Simulation and meshing packages such as STAR-CCM+, ICEM CFD or OpenFOAM can import colored STL files which is an export format supported by CAESES/FFW: Boundary surfaces (inlet, outlet and symmetry plane etc.) can be individually colored in CAESES/FFW so that the color information is transferred to the meshing software - for quick and automatic detection of these important surfaces. Here are different options for coloring surfaces in different situations (see also the screenshots):Trimesh Input: Click the edit button of a trimesh input surface and set the color.Boolean Operations: The colors of the participating solids are also transferred (e.g. the symmetry plane in the screenshot "solid_merged" is red because the initial box is colored red)Extrusion: If you extrude surfaces onto a plane and additionally close the result (e.g. for lids), the extrusion itself as well as the generated closed surface can also hold individual colors. CheersJoerg Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Bastian Ahlf 2 Report post Posted March 13, 2019 Hey Joerg, my intention is to import the caeses geometry via spaceclaim into ansys mesher. The import of the geometry and named selection by colors works fine with one exception. A single color or named selection is always chosen for the entire solid and not for the intended surface. I would be grateful for your help. Cheers Bastian Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jörg 29 Report post Posted March 13, 2019 Hi Bastian, Do you have a simple example (CAESES fdb project etc.)? It should not be a big deal to assign colors to patches, I guess. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mr. Bastian Ahlf 2 Report post Posted March 13, 2019 Hi Bastian, Do you have a simple example (CAESES fdb project etc.)? It should not be a big deal to assign colors to patches, I guess. How should i share the file with you? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ceyhan Erdem 14 Report post Posted March 13, 2019 Hi Bastian, Can you please send your project to erdem@friendship-systems.com? I will give a look and try to figure out the problem. CheersCeyhan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ceyhan Erdem 14 Report post Posted April 18, 2019 Hi Bastian, In SpaceClaim there is a certain situation that we observe. When no color is assigned in CAESES; within SpaceClaim strangely one of the face assigned colors is directly assigned to the entire volume. And that was the problem you were facing. In order to resolve the problem I will recommend you to assign a color to the entire BRep.At the bottom of the BRep menu , under Display Options you can find the location where you can create/assign BRep body colors However those colors assigned to each operation becomes a Named Selection for a face group Note: This problem is not observed in DesignModeler CheersCeyhan Share this post Link to post Share on other sites