How to select the surface with the highest area from a list?

Hello, complete newb here.

I'm having a little trouble with this definition.

I need to select the surface with the highest area from a list of 12 surfaces, I can manually input the value into a list item (in this case 7) but I need a way to evaluate the list, select the item with the higher area and return the number 7.

The problem is that if I sort the list and reverse it I could use the 0 value, but that's not the position of the surface in the original list.

Sorry if this is a stupid question but I can't figure it out.

Please help me and thank you very much in advance.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 25, 2013 at 2:53am

Compute and negate all areas (so the largest area becomes the smallest area).
Sort all areas.
Sort all surfaces synchronously.
Get item 0 out of the list of sorted surfaces.

If you don't negate your areas, then you need to select the last item out of the list, which can be accomplished by using index=-1 and wrap=true

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Tirol, Austria

Permalink Reply by Lui Lara on August 25, 2013 at 11:01am

Hello David, you rock!.

Sadly I can't make it work.

I can't sort my surfaces to be in synchrony with my area list, If there's a way to sort a surface list by using the areas as index I can't figure it out.

Maybe I'll just input the value manually every time.

Thank you!.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on August 25, 2013 at 11:59am