How to place monopoles on a vehicle

Thomas Athanasas
Thomas Athanasas Altair Community Member
edited November 2022 in Community Q&A

I need to place a set of monopoles of a given length on a vehicle.

One end of each monopole needs to touch the surface of the vehicle.

The surface of the vehicle is irregularly shaped.

It is easy to place monopoles on a flat surface, where the location of the surface is easily determined, but it is difficult when the monopoles are on an irregular surface.

My model currently has lines through the vehicle, where the intersection point of each line with the vehicle surface indicates where a monopole should start.  I was hoping I could write a Lua script that would determine the intersection point of each line with the vehicle surface, and then create monopoles of given lengths that would start at the intersection points.

 

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  • Torben Voigt
    Torben Voigt
    Altair Employee
    edited November 2022

    Hi @Thomas Athanasas ,

    You may use "Snapping" to place your monopoles on any face. Make sure you have these settings:
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    Then, when keeping CTRL and SHIFT pressed you can snap onto any surface. Just try.

    Hope this helps!

    Best regards,
    Torben

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