"live" Z coordinate of block as text

Scripting
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Hello!

I am trying to make a “live” elevation block that reflects the Z coordinate of the block insert point. I tried with the text field inside the block but the text is static because it references on original geometry. I tried phyton but I do not know how to read GUID of a new instance of block.

Please help!

Igor

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to be more specific…last line of code is not working!

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

pick=rs.GetPoint(“select a point”) #pick point
mypoint=rs.AddPoint(pick) #insert point

print “The object’s unique id is: {0}”.format(mypoint)

text=rs.AddText(“%<PointCoordinate(mypoint,“Z”)>%”,mypoint)

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I find out solution to this problem.

import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs

pick=rs.GetPoint(“select a point”) #pick point
mypoint=rs.AddPoint(pick) #insert point
mypointstr=str(mypoint)
print “The object’s unique id is: {0}”.format(mypoint)
print mypointstr
fieldstr=‘%<PointCoordinate("’ + mypointstr + ‘",“Z”)>%’
print ("FS: ",fieldstr)
text=rs.AddText(fieldstr,mypoint)

4

Hi Igor -

Yes, we have the request on the list as RH-68819 TextField: BlockInsertionCoordinate text field
-wim

5

Thanks for the info!