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Closest Point

Get the closest point on a geometry to a point

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Written by Holly Conrad Smith
Updated over 2 weeks ago

Category: Geometric Operations

Kind: Operation

Tags: Pull, Nearest

Description: Get the closest point on a geometry to a point

Inputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Feature

F

Cartesian

Item

The geometry

Point

P

Vector

Item

The point

Outputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

Point

P

Vector

Item

The closest point

Distance

D

Number

Item

The distance between the feature and the point

How to

  1. Feed in a feature to the Feature connector

    This could be from Rad Feature node, or a feature result of any other node.

  2. Feed in a vector point to the Point connector

  3. The result is the closest point on the Feature to the supplied point

Calculation:

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