Use the Query Entities tool to locate an entity on the model, or to find the ID of an entity by clicking on it.
To access this tool, click 
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Dialog elements
- Expand current selection by number of levels
- Specify the number of adjacent model elements to expand your mesh entity selection to.
Enter 1 in this box to expand your selection outward by one layer of contiguous elements. Enter 2 to expand your selection by two elements, and so on.
Note: The layer(s) of surrounding elements will include mesh elements (for example, nodes and triangles) only. - Put expanded entities into a new layer
- Places the new entities in a new layer. Note: After clicking Apply , the new layer will be added to the Layer pane.
Dialog elements
- Display or text
- Specifies whether to show the diagnostics results as a graphical representation or a text report (not available for all diagnostics).