@getentityvalue()
Retrieves the value of an entity.
Syntax
@getentityvalue (entity type, entity id, data name)
Type
HyperMesh Template Function
Inputs
- entity type
- The type of entity, such as sets, elems, or nodes, to which entity id refers.
- entity id
- The ID of the entity you want to reference.
- data name
- The data name of the entity. For example, ID, name, node1.globalx.
Example
To output the name of a set with the ID, 1:
*field (string,[@getentityvalue(sets, 1, name)], 32)The @getentityvalue function allows you to get a value from an entity if you know the entity’s type and ID. It allows you to get a value of the collector which contains an entity. This function searches the database and may access the data values slower than other commands, such as *sets().