idhoe Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 Hi, I am a newbie to autocad 3D and really need help. I need to extract the mesh vertices coordinates, anyone knows how to do that? either using the built in commands or lisp code. when working with 2D model, I can use point to get the coodinates of the nodes but in 3D, it is difficult to put a point in each of the vertex of the mesh thanks a lot for the attention Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnybean Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 Can`t you us the "id" command then select point . I just tried it on a mesh corbal and it gave me x y z coordinates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuccaro Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 A way could be to point the vertices one by one -no need to insert points. To proced, set the osnap properly and enter in the command line MULTIPLEID Click the vertices one by one. Press to finish, press F2 to bring up the text screen, select and copy the relevant part. Paste it in Notepad, edit the text (CTRL+H=find and replace) and you get a list of the vertices. As a beginer in AutoCAD, are you familiar with Lisps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idhoe Posted November 20, 2009 Author Share Posted November 20, 2009 thanks folks for the reply, actually i am working on the boundary element method computation and thinking to use autocad to create and meshing the models. the models coordinate will be then computed using fortran so actually i am dealing with many points or nodes which make it impossible to point them one by one. i am still not familiar with lisp code but wish to study about it. any suggestion to proceed on my problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iztok13 Posted November 20, 2009 Share Posted November 20, 2009 thx for multiple hint didnt now that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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