Point inside or outside of another entity

Hello. How i can know if a point is inside or outside of another entity: circle, rectangle, polyline, spline....

Regards.

(defun GroupByNum ( lst n / r)
 (if lst
   (cons
     (reverse (repeat n (setq r (cons (car lst) r) lst (cdr lst)) r))
     (GroupByNum lst n)
   )
 )
)

(defun ptonline ( pt pt1 pt2 / vec12 vec1p d result )
 (setq vec12 (mapcar '- pt2 pt1))
 (setq vec12 (reverse (cdr (reverse vec12))))
 (setq vec1p (mapcar '- pt pt1))
 (setq vec1p (reverse (cdr (reverse vec1p))))
 (setq vec2p (mapcar '- pt2 pt))
 (setq vec2p (reverse (cdr (reverse vec2p))))
 (setq d (distance '(0.0 0.0) vec12) d1 (distance '(0.0 0.0) vec1p) d2 (distance '(0.0 0.0) vec2p))
 (if (equal d (+ d1 d2) 1e- (setq result T) (setq result nil))
 result
)

(defun ptinsideent ( pt ent / msp ptt xlin int k kk tst result )
 (vl-load-com)
 (setq msp (vla-get-modelspace (vla-get-activedocument (vlax-get-acad-object))))
 (setq ptt (vlax-curve-getclosestpointto ent pt))
 (setq xlin (vla-addxline msp (vlax-3d-point pt) (vlax-3d-point ptt)))
 (setq int (GroupByNum (vlax-invoke (if (eq (type ent) 'ENAME) (vlax-ename->vla-object ent)) 'intersectwith xlin acExtendBoth) 3))
 (setq int (vl-sort int '(lambda (a b) (< (vlax-curve-getparamatpoint xlin a) (vlax-curve-getparamatpoint xlin b)))))
 (setq k 0)
 (while (< (setq k (1+ k)) (length int))
   (if (and (eq (rem k 2) 1) (ptonline pt (nth (- k 1) int) (nth k int))) (setq tst (cons T tst)) (setq tst (cons nil tst)))
 )
 (setq tst (reverse tst))
 (setq k 0)
 (mapcar '(lambda (x) (setq k (1+ k)) (if (eq x T) (setq kk k))) tst)
 (vla-delete xlin)
 (if kk
   (if (eq (rem kk 2) 1) (setq result T) (setq result nil))
   (setq result nil)
 )
 result
)

(ptinsideent pt ent) => T or nil

M.R.

Hello, marko_ribar. Works pefectly. It's great. Thank you very much.

Marko, there is a small problem. When de point belongs to the polyline, does not work.

Command: (vl-catch-all-apply 'ptinsideent (list pt ent))

#

- pt lies on ent

-if you want to return T (pt lies on ent and may not be inside or outside ent) use :

(vl-catch-all-error-p (vl-catch-all-apply 'ptinsideent (list pt ent)))

Command: (vl-catch-all-apply 'ptinsideent (list pt ent))

T

- pt is inside ent

Command: (vl-catch-all-apply 'ptinsideent (list pt ent))

nil

- pt is outside ent

(if (vl-catch-all-error-p (vl-catch-all-apply 'ptinsideent (list pt ent)))
 (prompt "\nPoint is on entity")
 (if (ptisideent pt ent)
   (prompt "\nPoint is inside entity")
   (prompt "\nPoint is outside entity")
 )
)

Thank you very much, marko. Now it works perfectly.

On 9/19/2012 at 3:42 PM, marko_ribar said:

 

(defun ptonline ( pt pt1 pt2 / vec12 vec1p d result )
 ...
 (if (equal d (+ d1 d2) 1e- (setq result T) (setq result nil))
 result
)

I'm noticing the 1e- 

Is that an incomplete argument? What should come after the minus?

1e-6), or 1e-8)

0.000001 or 0.00000001