{"id":438265,"date":"2025-07-31T13:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/project-linesedges-into-a-face-with-the-direction-normal-to-the-face\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T13:16:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T13:16:01","slug":"project-linesedges-into-a-face-with-the-direction-normal-to-the-face","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/project-linesedges-into-a-face-with-the-direction-normal-to-the-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Project lines\/edges into a face with the direction normal to the face"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dears,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As you can see in the image below, I have two surface bodies with the same curvature (one has been slightly offseted\/pulled from the other one).&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/31-07-2025-1753966126-mceclip1.png\" width=\"563\" height=\"329\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I would like to create lines in space (as shown highlighted in green in the image below) and project them to both surfaces having always the direction of projection normal\/orthogonal to this faces (following their curvature and the normal direction of each point of the faces). Unfortunately, when I use the Project tool, seems that I&#8217;m not getting the correct points or corresponce of this lines. In the image below, I highlighted in yellow the projections that do not end in the vertex.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/31-07-2025-1753967444-mceclip3.png\" width=\"1259\" height=\"1234\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you have another solution that does not use the Projection tool, it is also welcome, I just need to resolve this issue.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-438265","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-curvature","topic-tag-faces-1","topic-tag-projection-1","topic-tag-spaceclaim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_topic_id":["438265"],"_bbp_subscription":["489138","3452","612955"],"_bbp_author_ip":["130.192.26.107"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["444874"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["444874"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-10-27 17:48:43"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_engagement":["489138","3452","612955"],"_btv_view_count":["8759"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_last":["489138"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:1:{i:438266;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:489138;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}}"]},"test":"dacquestanhotmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/438265","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/438265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438266,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/438265\/revisions\/438266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}