Get normal direction

Altair Forum User

Hi,

any one can help me in finding the direction of normal to an element.

for ex: if we create a normal to an element using color base or vector basis how to know the vector is in which direction.using command.

looking forward to your replies..

Regards

RAmu

Altair Forum User

Hi Ramu,

You can use hm_getentityvalue for this.

set Nx [hm_getentityvalue elements $elementid 'normalx' 0]

same can be implemented for tria elements.

Hope this will solve the problem.

Mandar