RhinoScript find Biggest Z point in array

Scripting
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I’m new to rhinoscript, I started yesterday :slight_smile:

Let me try and see if I can explain what I’m doing.

I have a Mesh, from that mesh I need to find the highest point and the lowest point on that mesh.

I started by using the command: MeshVertices and getting a 2D array of all the points in the mesh, so far so good I think.

Now I need to find the Highest Z value of any point (called it “a”) and the lowest Z value of any point (“b”) as integers

so them I can use addpoint(0,0,a) and addpoint(0,0,b) and create a line on the Z axis

My question is how to find a and b, I have no idea.

Hope someone can help me

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Hi there,

There is the Rhinoscript Method Rhino.SortPoints,

You can use it to sort an array of Points by their coordinates (using their x,y or z coordinates as the sorting argument),
Using your Point Array and their z-Coordinate as an argument the function will return you an Array of Points where array(0) is the Point with the smallest z coordinate and array(Ubound(array)) is the point with largest z coordinate (or the other way round)

Hope this helps and good luck with learning from another non-pro

K.

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Thanks, with some help I found other way that works.
But I think your way would work to.

On to next challenge :slight_smile:

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If the high/low are aligned with the world axis and you’re not looking for the exact vertex that is the highest or lowest point, but just their Z values, then just use Rhino.BoundingBox on the mesh. That will return the 8 corner points of the world-aligned bounding box in order, the corners 0-3 will be the lower face of the box, and 4-7 the upper. You can then get individual X, Y or Z coordinates from the points. So you could extract the high/low as follows:

Dim arrBB
arrBB=Rhino.BoundingBox(mesh)
dblLowZ=arrBB(0)(2)
dblHiZ=arrBB(4)(2)
Call Rhino.AddPoint(0,0,dblLowZ)
Call Rhino.AddPoint(0,0,dblHiZ)

–Mitch