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. …

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)

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("’ + mypoint…

Hi Igor - [image] Igor Gojnik: I tried with the text field inside the block but the text is static because it references on original geometry. Yes, we have the request on the list as RH-68819 TextField: BlockInsertionCoordinate text field -wim

"live" Z coordinate of block as text

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

RH-68819 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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"live" Z coordinate of block as text

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