Getting geometrybase from guid

I am trying to use the rayshoot method on some objects in a rhino scene.

geometry       = rs.GetObject ("Pick object")
intPt = Rhino.Geometry.Intersect.Intersection.RayShoot(ray, [geometry], bounce)
print intPt

currently I an just trying to get it to work by selecting the object (mesh or surface) and see the return value. This gives the error:

Unable to cast object of type 'System.Guid' to type 'Rhino.Geometry.GeometryBase'.

Is there a way to convert a Guid to a geometry base object?

Ultimately I want to just parse the entire scene and go through all the objects, so the user wont be selecting each one, but for now, I can’t find information on how to get the basetype and not the guid.

Hi Matthew,

If you have an object’s id (e.g. Guid), then you can get the object. And from the object you can get the geometry.

Also, rhinoscryptsyntax does have a ShootRay method. Check the help file for details.

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

def TestRayShooter():
    corners = []
    corners.append((0,0,0))
    corners.append((10,0,0))
    corners.append((10,10,0))
    corners.append((0,10,0))
    corners.append((0,0,10))
    corners.append((10,0,10))
    corners.append((10,10,10))
    corners.append((0,10,10))
    box = rs.AddBox(corners)
    dir = 10,7.5,7
    reflections = rs.ShootRay(box, (0,0,0), dir)
    rs.AddPolyline( reflections )
    rs.AddPoints( reflections )

TestRayShooter()

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– Dale

For others, the function I was looking for was coerce

geometry = rs.coercebrep(geometry)

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