How to Extract the component name from selecting node / element.

Hello

try hm_getentityvalue nodes nodeid collector.name 1 -byid

please read topic about 'data names' in hypermesh help

hi tinh,

set a [hm_getmark nodes [*createmarkpanel nodes 1]];

'set b [hm_getentityvalue nodes $a 'collector.name' 1 -byid] '

puts 'col name : $b'

it is not returning the name of the collector.

Regards 

Adams

Hello Adams

it should be:

*createmarkpanel nodes 1 'Select a node';#this is an interactive command

set a [hm_getmark nodes 1]

set b [hm_getentityvalue nodes $a collector.name 1 -byid]; #if you did not or selected more than one node, this command will raise an error

puts 'col name: $b'

Hi tinh,

with the code listed above i am not able to retrieve the name of the component.

but when i am taking element as an entity then component name is extracted.

in my problem set node is important, i want to extract the component name while selecting node only.

thanks 

Adams

oh,sorry i forgot that one node can be belonged to 2 or more than 2 comps

so if you have a node, first find elements attached to it

*createmark nodes 1 $nodeid

*findmark nodes 1 1 1 elems 0 2

set elems [hm_getmark elems 2]

foreach elemid $elems {puts [hm_getentityvalue elems $elemid collector.name 1 -byid]}