NSMinDistance
Calculates the minimum distance from nodes to elements.
Inputs
- from_id_list
- List of IDs in from_sets to calculate distance from.
- to_id_list
- List of IDs in to_sets to calculate distance to.
- from_coord
- Coordinate table associated with from nodes.
- to_coord
- Coordinate table associated with to elements.
- from_sets
- Set table associated with from nodes.
- to_sets
- Set table associated with to elements.
- display
- String controlling output (byall = default, bymin, bymax).
- elems
- Element entity table.
- pool_name
- Name of the element pool in the set.
- set_pool
- Set pool name (typically “shell” or “ELEMENT_SHELL”).
- max_depth
- Spatialization depth (default=”7”, maximum=”12”).
Outputs
- answer
- A real nodal vector table.
Comments
- NSMinDistance can compute inter-model distance (distance between nodes and elements in the same model) and cross-model distance (distance from nodes in one model to elements in another).
- When calculating inter-model distance:
- from_coord and to_coord can refer to the same coordinate table.
- sets must be utilized in order to select a patch of nodes to compute distance from to a set of elements.
- When calculating cross-model distance:
- from_coord and to_coord must refer to the relevant coordinate tables in each model.
- Sets can be empty, in which case the distance will be from all nodes in the “from” model to all elements in the “to” model.
- Set ID lists can contain multiple entries. This is desirable when computing distance
from multiple source and destination patches. The syntax is as follows:
- Patches are separated by semi-colons.
from_id_list = "1,2,3" to_id_list = "4"
– defines one patch to plot the distance from sets 1,2,3 to set id 4.from_id_list = "1,2;3,4" to id_list="5;6"
– defines two patches to plot the distance from sets 1 & 2 to set 5 and 3 & 4 to set 6.
Syntax
N/A
XML Example
<call name="NSMinDistance"
from_id_list="1" to_id_list="3" from_coord="from_coords" to_coord="to_coords"
elems="slems" from_sets="from_sets"
to_sets="to_sets"
answer="answer" max_depth="10" />