Dynamic Text Field inside a Block

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Hi all, I am trying to make a dynamic Height-Annotation-Block.

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It consists of three elements, a symbol, a point(block original point) and textfield showing the Z coordinate value of the point.
I want to achieve when I copy the block to somewhere else it can dynamiclly reference itself not the original one.

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Or do I miss any easier way to do that in Rhino without Grasshopper.
ps. I wonder is there a way to retrieve block original coordinate value as an attribute?

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I think you need to build this once and derive the z hight from the point coordinent in user text. The save as a block and you can copy.
This is the syntax from the help file.

Displays the World XYZ coordinates of a selected point object.

The XYZ axes can be enabled respectively.

Syntax:

%<PointCoordinate(“ObjectID”,“Axes”

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my guess - this is not possible with a block definition and text fields.
it would be possible if PointCoordinate could be linked to the blocks insert point - but as far as I see - this is currently not possible.
(it would be possible with a plug-in that supports a custom rhinoDocObject / Annotation or it might be possible with a plugin like Rhenso)

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Will give it a try with the new gh rhino componnents

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hi camelworks, thank you for the reply!
the problem I have with gh is I need to bake the text component to see the height.
check out the gh file
if you have better solution, please let me know!
thank you
(it needs elefront)

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Height Annotation.3dm (74.8 KB)
Height Annotation.gh (8.8 KB)

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