Undocumented HyperMesh Commands

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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.