Selecting Objects by location using Maxscript

[tangert]

I'm new to using MaxScript, but what I'm looking to do is select an object by an X,Y,Z coordinate. Any easy way to do that?

 

Thanks.

 

Tom.

[quizzy]

please tell us a little more on why you want to do this, or what you're trying to make with MAxScript?? More roads lead to Rome...

[tangert]

I figured out how to do what I was looking for...

 

p = point position:[x,y,z]

for o in geometry where distance o p == 0 do selectmore o

 

Now for the reason...I'm importing an Inventor assembly into VIZ 4. My assembly is made up lots of instances of a small number of unique parts. In Inventor I may have 20 instances of PartA...they will all be named uniquely PartA:1 - PartA:20. When they get imported into VIZ 4 all 20 parts get named PartA and I can't uniquley reference them by name...and I need to be able to change materials on select parts...

 

Oh, the other thing to mention here is that I'm generating the MaxScript on the fly from an Inventor add-in and feeding it into a VIZ render farm.

 

Tom.