Points.ClosestPointTo cant find this node

1

image
image709×1536 91.4 KB

i have 2 lists of points and i want to get the closest point from list #2 to list #1

2

Not sure, but isn’t there a OOTB node for this?

Point.ClosestPoint

3

i thought the same but i cant fine it

4

I can look up the package for you in about 15 minutes. Unless someone beats me to it :sweat_smile:.

5

maybe Geometry.ClosestPointTo or Geometry.DistanceTo could work

1 Like
6

image
image648×770 51.4 KB

geometry closest point to gives the same 3 points from list 1

7

Can it be that the list you feed into other has the same Elements as the list you feed into geometry and thus the same location?

8

List.MinimumItemByKey, where the key is the Geometry.DistanceTo node with only the sample point in it, and the list is the flat list of all other points.

1 Like
9

You could use DesignScript

point = List.SortByKey(
    pts,
    Point.DistanceTo(pt, pts)
)["sortedList"][0];

Sorting is not as efficient as scanning a list once with a function, however, unless you are looking at a huge number of points, this will be ok and keeps it to one node