Extract node coordinate by TCL

FaForno

Dear All,

I would like to extract the node coordinate of a selected node using tcl.

In the past i was using the following:

*createmarkpanel nodes 1 "select node"

    set node1 [ hm_getmark nodes 1 ]

    set xnode [ hm_getentityvalue NODES $node1creation "x" 0 ]

    set ynode [ hm_getentityvalue NODES $node1creation "y" 0 ]

    set znode [ hm_getentityvalue NODES $node1creation "z" 0 ]

with new release the hm_getentityvalue has been changed to hm_getvalue but seems that I can not extract the X, Y, Z coordinate.

I was thinking to change the previous to:

set node1 [ hm_getmark nodes 1 ]

set xnode [ hm_getvalue NODES $node1 "x" 0 ]

set ynode [ hm_getvalue NODES $node1 "y" 0 ]

set znode [ hm_getvalue NODES $node1 "z" 0 ]

but it doens't work.

Can someone help me, please?

 

Thanks a lot,

FF

Michael Herve

Hello @FaForno 

 

the syntax for hm_getvalue is not the same than for hm_getentityvalue, you should retrieve detailed information in the online help

 

basically, itapplies now to all entities (there were many query commands in the past) and the syntax is

 

hm_getvalue entity_type identifier dataname=...

with entity type being either id=entity_id or name=entity_name or mark=entity_mark

 

So in your case

 

 

hm_getvalue nodes id=$node1 dataname=x

 

Hope this helps,

Michael

FaForno

It works perfectly!

 

Thank you very much!

 

Best regards,

Fabio

Rakshith

hi i am also having an issue related to this, how to extract node coordinates with reference to user defined system, please post answer, thanks in advance.

Michael Herve

Hello @Rakshith ,

there should be datanames localx, localy and localz to get local coordinates system if a system is assigned to the node

Does that help?

Regards,

Michael