V6 Wish - ProjectFromPoint etc

[Helvetosaur]

Continuing the discussion from Extrude to point - opposite direction?:

[quote=“pascal, post:2, topic:1075”]
Mitch, as it happens I just dredged up an old script to do this- they way I do in that script it is scale the input curves from the camera point so that they are scaled to the far side of the targets, then extrude back to the camera point.

I would like to officially add a wish to add this functionality to Rhino for V6, with two different commands

ProjectFromPoint to “project” geometry from an arbitrary point in space to some surface or mesh objects
ProjectFromViewCamera to project from the current camera point to some surface or mesh objects

Thanks,
–Mitch

[BrianJ (Brian James)]

Thanks Mitch for the feature request.

@pascal, What’s the best version of the script to attach to the request as an example?

[pascal (Pascal Golay)]

@BrianJ , there is a script attached to

Extrude to point - opposite direction?

I have some curves that I want to “project” onto some surfaces from a specific viewpoint. Imagine extruding the input curves to the viewpoint point and then extending the surfaces straight in the other direction to where they intersect the objects to project to… The intersection is what I want. What i can do is exactly as above - get the view I want, show the camera, get the camera point, extrude the curves to the point, then extendsrf them backwards, etc. This is time consuming as you can’t…

‘ProjectPersp’ that does the camera part of this request, at least most of the time; I do not have one for an arbitrary point and direction, but it would be easy enough to add I think. I’ll take a look.

-Pascal