Reply to Determine distance between bones and Antenna on Tue, 20 May 2025 14:52:05 GMT

bryn — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:52:05 GMT

To measure the shortest distance between two entities, you can use the Python API:

import XCoreModeling as xcm


shell = xcm.GetActiveModel().SelectedEntities[0]
coil = xcm.GetActiveModel().SelectedEntities[1]

res = xcm.GetEntityEntityDistance(shell, coil)
print(f"Shortest distance shell-coil: {res[0].Distance}")

p1 = xcm.CreatePoint(res[0].ClosestPosition)
p1.Name = "Point on Shell"

p2 = xcm.CreatePoint(res[1].ClosestPosition)
p2.Name = "Point on Coil"

# This line is just to visualize where the measured distance was taken
line = xcm.CreatePolyLine([res[0].ClosestPosition, res[1].ClosestPosition])

This would create something like this:

Some other snippets are shared here: https://forum.zmt.swiss/topic/565/geometry-modeling-snapping-to-endpoints-in-python-api/3?_=1747746585465