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Selection of surfaces

Hello all,

Is it possible to select some surfaces by defining their coordinates or sth else in tcl script?

Note: I can make it by createnarkpanel command but i dont want to select surfaces in GUI. So, I want to learn if I can handle it without mauel selection by mouse.

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tinh

yes, you can use

hm_measureshortestdistance2 to get closest surf to a coordinate

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Dear Tinh,

Thank you for your reply. I have tryed your suggestion but I still have problem on selecting desired surfaces. As illustarated in the picture below;

Coordinated of center nodes is wrtten in 'hm_measureshortestdistance2' command as, hm_measureshortestdistance1 6310.316 -437 1212.594 surfaces 1 0 0

However, in order to check if selection of washer surface is completed hm_getmark surfaces 1 is written. But nothing appeared on the screen. Unfortunately, surface is not selected.

Do you have any suggestion to achieve this problem?

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tinh

Please read hypermesh reference help (menu help)

the command will return several values including closest surf id then you just need to use *createmark surfs to select it