Supported Entities

Supported entities for hm_getboundingbox.

assems

• Bounding box includes the bounding boxes of all of its components and sub-assemblies.

bags

• Bounding box includes all the bounding boxes of its contents, with the exception that sub-bags do not contribute to the bounding box.

blocks

• Bounding box includes the 8 corner nodes.

comps

• Bounding box includes the entities as specified in the entity_flag argument.

connectors

• Bounding box includes the bounding box of the connector graphical locations (for example, geometry), and does not include any realized FE or link entities.

contactsurfs

• Bounding box includes all of the nodes of all of the elemental faces of the contact surface.

controlvols

• Bounding box contains all of the nodes and elements of the control volume.

elems

• Bounding box includes all nodes of the element, including any orientation nodes.

equations

• Bounding box includes all of the nodes of the equation.

groups

• The bounding box of a group includes all the bounding boxes of its contents.
• If its main or secondary definition includes elements, components, sets, or contact surfaces, it will include the bounding boxes of those entities.
• If the main or secondary definition includes "all", it is ignored.
• If the main or secondary definition includes "box" then the boundaries of the box are included, but no attempt is made to find what may be in that box.
• Only finite plane, finite prism, finite cylinder, and sphere rigid wall geometry definitions are included.

laminates

• Bounding box includes all of the bounding boxes of its plies and sub-laminates.

lines

• Bounding box includes the faceted representation.

loadcols

• Bounding box includes all loads and equations in the load collector.

loads

• For every load, its bounding box is the bounding box of the entity to which it is attached, be it a node, element, component, set, or geometry entity.

nodes

• Bounding box includes the coordinate locations. Definition system is ignored.

plies

• Bounding box includes all of the elements of the ply.

points

• Bounding box includes the coordinate locations.

sets

• Property and material sets do not have a bounding box.
• Sets of sets only explore one level deep into the selection (that is, sets of sets of sets are ignored).
• The bounding boxes of all other set types include the bounding boxes of those entities in the set.

solids

• Bounding box includes all of the bounding boxes of all of the surfaces of the solid.

subsystems

• Bounding box includes all the entities that reside in the subsystems and their children subsystems.

surfs

• Bounding box includes the faceted representation.

systcols

• Bounding box includes all systems in the system collector.

systs

• Bounding box includes the origin of the system. For 3-noded systems, the bounding box includes all three nodes of the system.

tags

• Bounding box includes the bounding boxes of the tag's element or node.

vectorcols

• Bounding box includes all vectors in the vector collector.

vectors

• Bounding box includes the base node of the vector, and a second node if defined.