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Find Face Containing Point

jack_white396jack_white396 Member Posts: 7 EDU
I am very new to featurescript and to coding as a whole, so I imagine this problem has an easy solution. I need to let the user select a point, which I know how to do, but then I need the feature to decide what face contains that point and then use it as the face for a sketch. How would I do this? Thank you so much for any help.

Comments

  • Jacob_CorderJacob_Corder Member Posts: 133 PRO
    use qContainsPoint(queryToFilter, point);
    or qWithinRadius(queryToFilter, point, radius);
  • chadstoltzfuschadstoltzfus Member, Developers, csevp Posts: 139 PRO
    qClosestTo(queryToFilter, point) could also work. Each of these querying options has different levels of granularity, and I would recommend reading through the documentation on https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/library.html to figure out which one would work best for this case. I would also make sure you include some code to account for what happens if multiple entities are queries. For example, if you use qContainsPoint but multiple faces contain that point, how does one decide which face to use? Queries can be extremely flexible, but that robustness can get out of control if you're not careful. 
    Applications Developer at Premier Custom Built
    chadstoltzfus@premiercb.com
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