Selecting breps based on proximity to a point

I'm new to Grasshopper, and I'm trying to figure out how to select only one brep object from a large group, specifically the one that is closest to a given point.

What I've managed to figure out is this:

The surface is the grid on which the objects are placed, and the brep param has selected the multiple breps I'm selecting from. This only gives me a range of distances from my point to the nearest points on all breps.

I can only seem to figure out how to find the nearest point on all breps, but I would like to be able to manipulate only one brep at a time. How might I do this?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 7, 2011 at 12:40pm

Hi Lauren,

you're very close as far as I can tell. Sorting the breps based on the CP distance is the correct first step. I think all you need to do now is use the List Item component to extract the first object in the list of sorted Breps (the object at index = 0).

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on July 7, 2011 at 3:49pm

Just to add an image to David's explanation:

Permalink Reply by Benjamin Golder on July 7, 2011 at 3:50pm

Permalink Reply by Daniel on November 16, 2019 at 6:35pm

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Yafim Simanovsky on June 18, 2014 at 2:26pm

Hi, I have a mesh, with the vertices, and i found the list of points that are above a certain distance from one point in the group, and now i want to somehow have a list of all the mesh faces associated with those points... is that possible? i've been trying but to no avail...

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