{"id":160006,"date":"2021-07-01T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T14:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/selecting-nodes-on-a-surface\/"},"modified":"2021-07-05T06:04:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T06:04:39","slug":"selecting-nodes-on-a-surface","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/selecting-nodes-on-a-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Selecting nodes on a surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to remodel a deformed lens by the following steps:<\/p>\n<p>Extracting the deformed .STL file<\/p>\n<p>Reading the file in MATLAB<\/p>\n<p>Fitting a surface to the deformed lens surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Extracting the polynomial equation of the surface and using the equation to remodel the lens in the Optical simulation software and evaluating the change in performance.<\/p>\n<p>For this, I am interested on the surface nodes because the optical simulation is only calculating the ray paths based on surface interactions. So it is enough to have two surfaces and the distance between these surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way to select nodes only on one or maybe nodes on selected surface(s)?<\/p>\n<p>Any lead is appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>With best regards,<\/p>\n<p>Amit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-160006","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-mesh","topic-tag-mesh-nodes","topic-tag-node-selection-1","topic-tag-structural"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_old_reply_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_reply_anonymous_id":["false"],"_btv_view_count":["6345"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_subscription":["235110"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["160006"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","31263"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["6"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["184129"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["184129"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-07-05 06:04:39"]},"test":"amit-pandeythi-de"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/160006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/160006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}