Selecting elements without gaps

General Questions
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Hello
Hope you are all well
I am trying to make 3 element sets for a tube in PPM however, manual selections result in some elements not being selected.
I want to assign different materials to the different Elsets.
It is a fairly easy case however, the selection is resulting in elements being left out and not being assigned any material and then error in running.
I have attached a copy of the file on this drive

Would appreciate some guidance on how I could have all the elements designated to only the three groups that I make.

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It would be much easier if it was a compound made of 3 imported parts. Otherwise, you have to be quite precise with box selection.

sel 1
sel 11671×714 155 KB

sel 2
sel 21591×728 103 KB

sel 3
sel 31649×727 73.3 KB

P.S. I would suggest updating PrePoMax. Your version is quite old.

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@FEAnalyst
Thank you!
I made a compound part, and it was much easier. Also updated my PPM version :slight_smile:

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