smesh/doc/gui/input/group_of_underlying_elements.rst

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Group Based on Nodes of Other Groups
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To create a standalone group of entities basing on nodes of existing reference groups, in the **Mesh** menu select **Group of underlying entities**.
The following dialog box will appear:
.. image:: ../images/dimgroup_dlg.png
:align: center
In this dialog box specify
* the resulting **Group name**,
* the **Elements Type** of entities of the resulting group,
* the criterion of inclusion of a mesh entity to the result group, which is **Number of common nodes** of the entity and the reference groups:
* **All** - include if all nodes are common;
* **Main** - include if all corner nodes are common (meaningful for a quadratic mesh)
* **At least one** - include if one or more nodes are common
* **Majority** - include if half or more nodes are common
* select reference groups,
* If **Include underlying entities only** option is activated an entity can be included if it is based on nodes of one element of a reference group.
In the figure below, there are two reference Volume groups:
.. image:: ../images/dimgroup_src.png
:align: center
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Reference groups
In this case the following results for Faces, Edges and Nodes are obtained:
.. image:: ../images/dimgroup_2d.png
:align: center
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Faces
.. image:: ../images/dimgroup_1d.png
:align: center
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Edges
.. image:: ../images/dimgroup_0d.png
:align: center
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Nodes
**See Also** a sample TUI Script of a :ref:`tui_create_dim_group` operation.