Hi all, I am trying to make a dynamic Height-Annotation-Block. [Height] [2] 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 its…

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: %<Point…

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 / Annotatio…

Will give it a try with the new gh rhino componnents

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) [Bake] Height Annotation.3dm (74.8 KB) Height Annotation.gh (8.8 KB…

Dynamic Text Field inside a Block

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brian (Brian Gillespie) March 17, 2026, 8:36pm 6

RH-68819 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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Dynamic Text Field inside a Block

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