Current model unit system accessible by Hops function

[joev (jovee)]

Hi there!

I’m currently discarding some of my clusters in favor of hops functions, but I have one issue. One of my clustered definitions relies on a bit of (clunky) python inside to access the current model unit system and scale the results properly. I hadn’t considered this before trying, but hops seems to only want to access a default unit system (I’m guessing it’s meters, since that’s the only result returned).

Beyond manually passing that information through as an integer or string and using a lookup inside the function, is there any current way to pass hops your current working unit system? Some sneaky Get parameter somewhere?

Thanks in advance!

[joev (jovee)]

For now, here’s how I’m solving this problem. I have a simple python script fetching the unit system, which returns an integer, and passing that into my Hops function manually along with the value I need to convert.

Inside the Hops function, I’m making use of the rhinoscript UnitScale method to handle the math and pass it back out.

@stevebaer if there was a Get parameter available in Hops that could fetch the unit system, it would sure make this cleaner!