Collection of Elements Within a Prismatic Volume (Not Rectangular)

Hi guys,

I have written a small macro to collect elements like VALV, FILT, EQUI etc. that stays inside the group of volume objects. By volume objects I mean, prismatic shapes that we either created as primitive extrusion from equipment module, or imported from other 3D program as GENPRI. Using the below syntax for valves as example:

VAR !X COLLECT ALL VALV WITHIN VOLUME /"Name of the Volume Object"

The problem is, if the volume object is not a rectangular prism, lets say it is a triangular prism, the program gathers the valves for as if it is a rectangular one. So it is not using the exact volume of the shape, it uses the volume of rectangular prism which the exact shape just fits in. Because of that, we are having valves that are actually not inside the volume object.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

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Cary over 1 year ago +1

sometimes, we use clash checker to collect items within the actual object volume (not the rectangular). It's a long shot but will do.

Cary over 1 year ago

sometimes, we use clash checker to collect items within the actual object volume (not the rectangular). It's a long shot but will do.
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Corrado Galluzzi over 1 year ago

Have you considered using E3D area (AREADE) elements?

You could generate a report where for each element you could query GTAREA and GTEXAREA pseudo attributes so you know in which area it is contained (exactly or not).

See images here below.

The beam is (exactly) not contained into the blue prism named /PRISM_AREA.

But is contained inside the outbounding red box.

Hope this makes sense and is helpful somehow.
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Baran Tintas over 1 year ago in reply to Corrado Galluzzi

That can solve our issue. Thanks.
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