Undocumented HyperMesh Commands

Altair Forum User

Hi there!

I'd like to share the restults of investigastions for currently undocumented commands in HyperMesh. Feel free to add information about your experiences ...

hm_findclosestpointonline – Find closest point on line for given coordinates.

Syntax            hm_findclosestpointonline x y z lineIDArguments x       The X coordinate of the input point.          y       The Y coordinate of the input point.          z       The Z coordinate of the input point.          lineID  Entity ID of line.Comments Returns  xL yL zL dist          xL    The X coordinate of the nearest point on line.          yL    The Y coordinate of the nearest point on line.          zL    The Z coordinate of the nearest point on line.          dist  The shortest distance from point to line.

Altair Forum User

WOW - at last!

HyperMesh 9 help is a html help now which seems to be more complete from the first glance ...

Thanks Altair!