How to unselect an element type?

[giiyms]

Hello,

Is it possible to unselect some elements and only plot the result/grid for that?

I want to unselect FLUID116 elements and plot the temperatures after the fact.
I see it in the _element_map, I tried setting the matching indexes from that map to np.nan but no success.

Is there an easier way?

[mikerife]

Hi @giiyms
If you want to stick with PyMAPDL Reader you can use the element_components field to define the set of elements to plot. The component would have needed to be defined prior to solving.

Alternatively you could use PyDPF which has element & node scoping (selecting). Or use PyMAPDL.

Can you share a representative test model?

Mike