Hi, I’m trying to get the area of the top face of certain beams. I was searching in the forum similar cases by I did’n find anything. I think a good approach is to get every face of the element and filter the face with bigger Z coordinates. Or maybe get the file surface with an upwards orientatio…

You can also get the surface vectors and filter to the ones that are parallel to the Z axis. This will get you the top and the bottom. Then from that just get the one that has the highest z coordinate value. Normally, we give guidance and let the poster work it out and we help where needed. But it w…

Get top face of an element

christian.stan June 13, 2023, 7:20pm 10

Hi, the damn special case, although in the question one can suspect the top face of the element
(mandatory double filtering to eliminate in the case of inclined beams)

cordially
christian.stan

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