{"id":943,"date":"2021-09-01T12:57:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/?p=943"},"modified":"2021-09-01T12:58:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T19:58:47","slug":"170-gets-the-distance-of-the-given-point-from-the-nearest-line-with-ids-specified-as-arguments-in-hypermesh-tcl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/2021\/09\/170-gets-the-distance-of-the-given-point-from-the-nearest-line-with-ids-specified-as-arguments-in-hypermesh-tcl\/","title":{"rendered":"#170 Gets the distance of the given point from the nearest line with IDs specified as arguments in HyperMesh tcl"},"content":{"rendered":"

#170 Gets the distance of the given point from the nearest line with IDs specified as arguments in HyperMesh tcl.<\/p>\n

To get closest to the point with coordinates (10, 20, 30) point on the line with ID 13:<\/p>\n

\r\nhm_getdistancefromnearestline [list 10 20 30] 13\r\n<\/pre>\n
To get closest line from the set with IDs 13 14 15:<\/p>\n
\r\nhm_getdistancefromnearestline [list 10 20 30] [list 13 14 15]\r\n<\/pre>\n
To get closest to the node with ID 2 point on the line with ID 13:<\/p>\n
\r\nhm_getdistancefromnearestline [hm_getvalue nodes id=2 dataname=coordinates] 13\r\n<\/pre>\n
This is an example, when we try to obtain closest line ID for the given point:<\/p>\n
\r\n# consider node 71\r\nset n 71 \r\n# get the coordinates of the node\r\nforeach {x y z} [join [hm_nodevalue $n]] {}\r\nputs "x=$x y=$y z=$z"\r\n# get all lines in the model\r\n*createmark lines 1 "all"\r\nset lines_list [hm_getmark lines 1]\r\nset results [hm_getdistancefromnearestline [list $x $y $z] $lines_list]\r\nset distance [lindex $results 0]\r\nset line_id [lindex $results 1]\r\nputs "min distance = $distance"\r\nputs "closest line ID = $line_id"\r\n<\/pre>\n
Output:<\/p>\n
\r\nx=33.029 y=21.96 z=1.49\r\nmin distance = 3\r\nclosest line ID = 696\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
#170 Gets the distance of the given point from the nearest line with IDs specified as arguments in HyperMesh tcl. To get closest to the point with coordinates (10, 20, 30) point on the line with ID 13: hm_getdistancefromnearestline [list 10 20 30] 13 To get closest line from the set with IDs 13 14 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"yes","_lmt_disable":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypermesh","category-tcl"],"modified_by":"gantovnik","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8bH0k-fd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8057,"url":"https:\/\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/2025\/02\/458-hypermesh-tcl-script-to-save-selected-node-ids-and-coordinates-to-a-csv-file\/","url_meta":{"origin":943,"position":0},"title":"#458 HyperMesh tcl script to save selected node IDs and coordinates to a csv file","author":"gantovnik","date":"2025-02-20","format":false,"excerpt":"In this example, we create n=40 random nodes, select several of them, and save their node IDs and coordinates in a csv file. proc RandomReal {min max} { return [expr (rand()*($max-$min)+$min)] } set x_min 0.0 set x_max 20.0 set y_min 0.0 set y_max 10.0 set n 40 for {set i\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "HyperMesh"","block_context":{"text":"HyperMesh","link":"https:\/\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/category\/hypermesh\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-02-20_005944.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-02-20_005944.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-02-20_005944.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-02-20_005944.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-02-20_005944.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-02-20_005944.png?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2219,"url":"https:\/\/gantovnik.com\/bio-tips\/2024\/06\/431-hypermesh-python-script-to-create-nodes-using-coordinates-from-csv-file\/","url_meta":{"origin":943,"position":1},"title":"#431 HyperMesh python script to create nodes using coordinates from csv file","author":"gantovnik","date":"2024-06-24","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally, I read how to write a script for HyperMesh in python. 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