Get all faces of a part

Lee_Hesketh

Hi, how could I get all the faces of a body? I have got the body I need, I just need to iterate through the faces to find the smallest area and use that in a distance calculation. The body is a simple cuboid.
Thanks
Lee Hesketh

ilya_baran

You can do qOwnedByBody(yourBody, EntityType.FACE).  To get the smallest area, you can also do qSmallest(qOwnedByBody(yourBody, EntityType.FACE)) rather than iterating.

ilya_baran

You can do qOwnedByBody(yourBody, EntityType.FACE).  To get the smallest area, you can also do qSmallest(qOwnedByBody(yourBody, EntityType.FACE)) rather than iterating.

Lee_Hesketh

@ilya_baran qSmallest brings a red underline error, it seems that isn't a true query.

ilya_baran

It is real: qSmallest but you may need to make sure that your std library version (at the top of the feature studio) is recent (it was introduced towards the end of summer).  Latest version is 477.

Lee_Hesketh

Ahh, so do I just change the number? Currently it says 432

ilya_baran

That's strange -- qSmallest is in 432.  The number should appear in two places: the first "FeatureScript" line and the import onshape/std/geometry.fs line below -- is the number in the import line also 432.0?

Lee_Hesketh

Yes, both say 432 but I changed both to 477 and qSmallest came up and the script you posted works