dimensions of an imported body

Hello,

please be more specific what "dimensions" mean:
- specific physical unit (meter, milimeter)?
- how "largel" the body is?
- ...

thanks
Jan

Hello Jan,

How long and large the body is in drawing units (or YADE units).

Thanks,

F.

imported body is a list of facets. You have access to its data, so you can do whatever you want. For example to get the min and max x coordinate:
###
minX = 1e99, maxX = -1e99
for facet in facets:
   vs = [facet.state.pos + facet.state.ori * v for v in facet.shape.vertices] # vertices in global coord system
   minX = min(minX,min(v[0] for v in vs))
   maxX = max(maxX,max(v[0] for v in vs))
###

you can of course compute min and max y and z coordinates the same way or do more sophisticated analysis (smallest enclosing ellipsoid for instance).

cheers
Jan

Hello Jan,

I just did what you propose but I have an error message, possibly very basic mistake ??:

*******************************************************************************************************
fctIdscylinder=O.bodies.append(ymport.stl('Pot-FR-1.stl',color=(1,0,0),material=facetMat))
###
minX = 1e99
maxX = -1e99
minY = 1e99
maxY = -1e99
minZ = 1e99
maxZ = -1e99

for facet in fctIdscylinder:
   print 'facet=', facet
   vs = [facet.state.pos + facet.state.ori * v for v in facet.shape.vertices] # vertices in global coord system

minX = min(minX,min(v[0] for v in vs))
maxX = max(maxX,max(v[0] for v in vs)) ###

minY = min(minY,min(v[1] for v in vs))
maxY = max(maxY,max(v[1] for v in vs)) ###

minX = min(minZ,min(v[2] for v in vs))
maxX = max(maxZ,max(v[2] for v in vs)) ###

The error message is the following (facet is an integer!):

 vs = [facet.state.pos + facet.state.ori * v for v in facet.shape.vertices] # vertices in global coord system
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'shape'

Thanks for your answer!

Best

V.

Thanks Jan Stránský, that solved my question.