Supported Entities

Supported entities for hm_getboundingbox.

assems

Bounding box includes the bounding boxes of all of its components, multibodies, 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.

ellipsoids

Bounding box includes the faceted representation.

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.

mbjoints

Bounding box includes the two end points of the joint.

mbplanes

Bounding box includes the four corners of the plane.

multibodies

Bounding box includes the center or gravity of the multibody, plus all of the bounding boxes of its ellipsoids, mbjoints, and mbplanes.

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.