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Evaluation of a value at a specific point within a Cut Point 3D Grid Dataset
Posted 19.02.2025, 15:52 MEZ Electromagnetics, Results & Visualization Version 6.3 5 Replies
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Hopefully a quick and easy one!
I have created a 3D simulation of an arc magnet that moves around in space, and want to evaluate the z component of field at specific points within a 3D Cut Point dataset.
Obviously if the dataset had 1 discrete point, I would just evaluate mfnc.Bz for the dataset.
However, with a grid definition of the dataset (see attachment) I want to evaluate it at a specific point within that grid definition. I have customised the point number variable to be "chip_n" so clearly need to use that within my expression to evaluate, but I cannot determine what the correct syntax for this is!
In my attached example there are 54 discreet points defined by my grid, and I would like (for example) to determine the difference in the z field at points 1 and 10.
Thanks in advance for your guidance...
Mark
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Hi Mark,
just a wild guess: could withsol() do the trick.
Cheers Edgar
-------------------Edgar J. Kaiser
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Hi Edgar,
I did try looking into using "withsol()", but I still couldn't see how to develop an expression that drills down to an individual point within a dataset. The examples in the manual don't really relate to what I am trying to achieve.
Thanks for the idea though!
Will let you know if I find out a suitable method.
Mark
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There's no expression syntax for referring to a point that has a certain value of chip_n. It might be possible to do what you want using a Point Evaluation in a Derived Values or an Evaluation Group: I think that the points are ordered in increasing order with respect to chip_n, and if they aren't, then you can evaluate chip_n in addition to the expression that you are interested in. This leaves you with a table of values. You can create a model method that extracts the values you're interested in. This is admittedly more complicated that a dedicated expression syntax would have been.
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Can a filter expression help in a point plot?
-------------------Edgar J. Kaiser
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I think the best available solution is to use the at function.
For example, to evaluate mfnc.Bz at a position of (x1,y1,z1), you would use:
at3_spatial(x1,y1,z1,mfnc.Bz)
This is for a 3D model, you would use at1 or at2 for lower dimensions.
As alluded to above, I do not think the object model drills down to the granular level needed to expose the individual locations of a Cut Point grid dataset.