Mesh entities selection caught lacking fr

Hi everyone, hope everything is going good for you all.
I’m currently working in salome meca converting .inp meshes into .MED using freecad and importing in salome but the mesh module doesnt seem to be able to detect any surface from the mesh.
Some selection filters like “belong to cylinder” require a surface threshold
but manual selection doesnt seem to find any surfaces at all not even elements ones, is there a way around this issue? alternatively, is there a clever way to select entities belonging to specific geometric features?