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    Hi Richard,<br>
    <br>
    &nbsp; Yes, I'm aware of that functionality. I believe this command-line
    tool compliments that by providing something that can be used
    quickly when the 3-D coordinates of interest are already known. It
    is *much* simpler than figuring out how to plot the right cutaway
    and then click on the 3-D point of interest on a 2-D screen. While
    the resulting information may be the same, the path to it is
    different making this a useful addition to our toolbox.<br>
    <br>
    Regards,<br>
    -David<br>
    <br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/28/12 6:44 PM, Richard Jones
      wrote:<br>
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    <blockquote cite="mid:50B6A1C6.3040702@uconn.edu" type="cite">
      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hello,<br>
        <br>
        A tool for this already existed in hdgeant.&nbsp; My tool allows you
        to click on a drawing of the detector that is cut through any
        arbitrary plane (origin, orientation selected with numbers or a
        mouse) and see the entire volume hierarchy plus the local value
        of the magnetic field.&nbsp; Of course there is nothing wrong with
        having another tool that does the same thing.<br>
        <br>
        -Richard J.<br>
        <br>
        <br>
        <br>
        <br>
        On 11/28/2012 4:37 PM, David Lawrence wrote:<br>
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      <blockquote cite="mid:50B68429.3050207@jlab.org" type="cite"> <br>
        Hi All,<br>
        <br>
        &nbsp; As I mentioned at the Offline Software meeting today, I have
        written a new<br>
        utility for examining the geometry. Specifically, if one gives
        it an X,Y,Z coordinate<br>
        in the lab frame, it will print the volume and material
        properties for the<br>
        volume at that point. It will also list the entire volume
        hierarchy of that volume<br>
        outwards to the outermost Mother volume. Here is an example
        querying the center<br>
        of the target.<br>
        <div class="moz-forward-container"><br>
          <tt>&gt;hd_geom_query 0 0 65</tt><br>
          <br>
          <tt>&nbsp;&nbsp; Location: (X, Y, Z) = (0, 0, 65)</tt><tt><br>
          </tt><tt>===============================================</tt><tt><br>
          </tt><tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Volume: LIH2</tt><tt><br>
          </tt><tt>&nbsp;&nbsp; material: LiqHydrogen</tt><tt><br>
          </tt><tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; density: 0.0708 g/cm^3</tt><tt><br>
          </tt><tt>rad. length: 816.933 cm</tt><tt><br>
          </tt><tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A: 1.00797</tt><tt><br>
          </tt><tt>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Z: 1</tt><tt><br>
          </tt><tt>&nbsp; ancestory: LIH2 -&gt; TGTV -&gt; TARG -&gt; HALL
            -&gt; SITE</tt><br>
          <br>
          One can also have it generate the geometry from the XML at
          run-time<br>
          using external HDDS tools similar to what was recently done
          with hdgeant.<br>
          <br>
          If the program is run with no arguments, a Usage statement is
          printed:<br>
          <br>
          <tt>&gt;hd_geom_query<br>
            <br>
            Usage:<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; hd_geom_query [options] X Y Z<br>
            <br>
            Print the material properties for the specified point in lab<br>
            &nbsp;coordinates. Units of X,Y, and Z are cm.<br>
            <br>
            By default, this uses the geometry built into the file
            libHDGEOMETRY.a<br>
            that was used to link this executable. The -xml switch may
            be used<br>
            to dynamically compile and link code generated from the XML
            at run<br>
            time. If an equals sign "=" follows the -xml switch then the<br>
            main_HDDS.xml file is taken from the remainder of that
            argument.<br>
            <br>
            If the -xml switch is specified, then a file named
            "tmp_hddsroot.so"<br>
            is searched for in the current directory. If found, it is
            opened and<br>
            the geometry checksum is read from it and compared to that
            of the XML<br>
            specified (which may be the default of
            $HDDS_HOME/main_HDDS.xml).<br>
            If the two match, then that shared object is used, bypassing
            the<br>
            (expensive) compilation phase. If the file is not present,
            is unreadable,<br>
            or the checksums don't match, then the shared object is
            automatically<br>
            (re)generated.<br>
            <br>
            &nbsp;options:<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -h or --help&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Print this usage statement<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -xml[=main_HDDS.xml]&nbsp; Dynamically generate geometry<br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -checksum&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Print the MD5 checksum of the <br>
            &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; geometry and exit<br>
            <br>
            If the -xml option is given and no file is specified,<br>
            then a value of: $HDDS_HOME/main_HDDS.xml<br>
            is used.<br>
          </tt><br>
          The source for this is now in the sim-recon tree and can be
          found here:<br>
          <br>
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href="https://halldsvn.jlab.org/repos/trunk/sim-recon/src/programs/Utilities/hd_geom_query">https://halldsvn.jlab.org/repos/trunk/sim-recon/src/programs/Utilities/hd_geom_query</a><br>
          <br>
          <br>
          Regards,<br>
          -David<br>
          <br>
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                <td>r10030 - in trunk/sim-recon/src/programs/Utilities:
                  . hd_geom_query</td>
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                <th nowrap="nowrap">Date: </th>
                <td>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:37:40 -0500</td>
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                    href="mailto:zisis@uregina.ca">zisis@uregina.ca</a>,
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                    href="mailto:mashephe@indiana.edu">mashephe@indiana.edu</a>,
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                    href="mailto:remitche@indiana.edu">remitche@indiana.edu</a>,
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                    href="mailto:zihlmann@jlab.org">zihlmann@jlab.org</a>,
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:somov@jlab.org">somov@jlab.org</a>,
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="mailto:staylor@jlab.org">staylor@jlab.org</a>,
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                    href="mailto:kmoriya@indiana.edu">kmoriya@indiana.edu</a>,
                  <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:pmatt@jlab.org">pmatt@jlab.org</a>,
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          <pre>Author: davidl
Date: 2012-11-28 10:37:40 -0500 (Wed, 28 Nov 2012)
New Revision: 10030

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   trunk/sim-recon/src/programs/Utilities/hd_geom_query/Makefile
   trunk/sim-recon/src/programs/Utilities/hd_geom_query/hd_geom_query.cc
Log:
A new utility to get info on the volume located at a
specific location in lab coordinates. This uses the
ROOT TGeo facility. The hddsroot.h file generated by
HDDS is compiled in and used by default. An option
exists to regenerate this file and compile and link 
it dynamically similar to what is now done in hdgeant.


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