Hello All, I’m trying to make a dynamic block to reports the Z coordinate of the insertion point (using it to annotate the level of building items above the Cplane or world) this is helping me as I’m designing some roof slopes. My attempt is below, is not actually helping: 1- Create a …

Hi Tay - [image] tay.othman: How can I do this? There is no good way to do this in Rhino, no. I’ve added this example to RH-55283 - Working with text field syntax is awkward What you can do, is create the curve geometry and add a text object. Then use ConvertTextToBlockAttribute to make tha…

Thank you @wim Much appreciated. This forces me to learn more things to solve my problem, I’ll try making a script that tracks the value of block insertion point. and If I make it I’ll update this post to a new solution. Thanks again. Tay

For now I’m going to use this python script, it seems working more like _EvaluatePt but without the x,y coordinates. import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs mypoint = rs.GetPoint(“Enter your point location”,None, False) pz = round(mypoint[2],2) print pz mark = str(“”) if pz > 0: mark = str(“+”) zval…

How to? Embed Z coordinate usertext in a block

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brian (Brian Gillespie) March 17, 2026, 8:36pm 5

RH-68819 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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How to? Embed Z coordinate usertext in a block

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