Get normal direction

Altair Forum User · April 2009

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 · April 2009

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

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