Rhinoscript to rhino common - bounding box and select

[Willem (Willem Derks)]

Hi revink,

Not a specific answer to you question but rather a few links to guide you into RhinoCommon. This way you know how to see how methods like ObjectsByLayer use RhinoCommon

Also to format python code in a post use this wrapper:

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Translates to:

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The links:

Construction plane from closed curve profile

Yes, Have a look at these screenshots from the editor. You can click at the position of the red dot to insert a breakpoint. This will halt the script at that point and you can inspect the content of the current variables: [image] [image] [image] More to find on rhinocommon: https://developer.rhino3d.com/api/RhinoCommon/html/N_Rhino.htm#! search for plane for example: [image] [image] A good way to explore working with rhino common in python is to insert breakpoints before a rhino…

From Python into Rhino Common

Continuing the discussion from Is this the best way to automatically update linked blocks?: Hi Jorgen, Below a description on how I find my way in RhinoCommon through Python: starting with the code: import rhinoscriptsyntax as rs blockList=rs.BlockNames() I put a debug breakpoint at the last line: [image] Run the code with the green arrow (F5). The script stops at line 2 and you get options to continue, StepInto SetOver over …etc Choose StepInto [image] The script will step into the …

Possible returns from rs.coercegeometry

Hello all, I’ve inherited some ghPython code which is being used to convert a number of different geometry types to meshes. Right at the start of the code there’s a call to “rs.coercegeometry”. After some poking around, it looks like the documentation for the rs.coerceX functions hasn’t been published yet. This leaves me in a slightly uncomfortable position - I’ve got a big black box right at the start of a piece of code which I’m refactoring, and only the vaguest idea of what it does. This…

Let us know if you have more questions.
-Willem