Choose the larger of two surfaces

I have two surfaces (produced by a surface split component) - and I want to choose the one with the larger area.

I suspect there is a simple, elegant way to do this but apart from using an area component, I don't know what to do.

Can someone recommend the best way to do this? I'm having trouble comparing area sizes, and it seems like there should be an easier method.

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Permalink Reply by FRiou on August 11, 2015 at 5:11am

Hello Christopher,

You need to use the Larger Than component with Pick and Choose, like below.

Permalink Reply by Joe Allberry on August 11, 2015 at 5:17am

You're almost there, Christopher, just overcomplicating things for yourself a tad!

If you sort the areas, then co-sort the split surfaces using these keys you can just reverse the list and pick the first item:

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 11, 2015 at 6:55am

You can even get rid of the reverse list and pick the last item by using index=-1.

Permalink Reply by Christopher Edgemon on August 11, 2015 at 8:17am

Thanks Joe and FRiou, these are really lovely solutions - sorting with keys / values solves so many problems that I've had.

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