Find nearest cad element

There is a tool in PC-DMIS that can find nearest CAD element for point features. Edit>Graphics Display Window>Point Nominal Deviation... It doesn't work for edge points, but neither does Find Nearest CAD Element.

You mean something like the right-click menu choice "Feature -> Update Nominals from CAD..."? I know no way to automate that...

Thanks for the responses.
I should have elaborated as to why I was looking for that
magic function. Not having much "scanning experience",
I wanted to probe an exact .250 (inch) grid on a contoured
surface with an exact starting point and an exact .250 increment.
I did the first two rows with vector points and manually adjusting
the exact increment with the F9 "binocular icon find nearest cad
element". Then I did a paste with pattern and generated another
90 or 100 points, but had to project them onto cad surface
with the "find nearest cad element" individually.
I tried the grid scan but could get the exact start point.
So I thought there might be a function that would automatically
project the generated points onto cad surface in a script.
But, if there is an easier way to get the grid scan to do that,
I'm open to that. But I guess that should be posted in the
CMM part of the forum, not the CODE SAMPLES.
Thanks again.

git, Point Nominal Deviation does exactly what you want, and it will do every point at the same time.

I did a quick test, and it looks like the option "Change manager -> CAD" (part of PC-DMIS Planner?) also does the trick (and works for all kinds of features). I layed out a number of points "in the air" above a curved surface, then started the Change Manager and set a quite large tolerance for locating differences between CAD and program (too small tolerance and everything goes into the "possibly delete?" list), selected all found points and did an Update - Bingo! Most of them were now on the surface (I don't really understand why not all of them)!

Thanks for the responses.
I should have elaborated as to why I was looking for that
magic function. Not having much "scanning experience",
I wanted to probe an exact .250 (inch) grid on a contoured
surface with an exact starting point and an exact .250 increment.
I did the first two rows with vector points and manually adjusting
the exact increment with the F9 "binocular icon find nearest cad
element". Then I did a paste with pattern and generated another
90 or 100 points, but had to project them onto cad surface
with the "find nearest cad element" individually.
I tried the grid scan but could get the exact start point.
So I thought there might be a function that would automatically
project the generated points onto cad surface in a script.

On a side note, (not for automation programming)
You could use F5/ Find Nominals during Execution, once.
Run offline, it'll move every (Snap On) Vector point in your program to the closest CAD nominal.
There's a long write up on the other forum.

Thanks all for the variety of answers to my post.
It lends credence to the old saying "there's more than one
way to skin a cat".
Additional lesson learned for me is that I need to
explore/experiment with the available PCDMIS
functionality and not try to re-invent the wheel with
a script.
Although I must say, some of the scripts posted on this
site are pretty awesome. Thanks again!!