Selecting a point3D in the model among a list

Hi,

I’ve got a list of point3D in my model, I would like the user to choose one among them in the model. I’m using vb.net with rhinocommon.

I tried to look at the constraints or snaps of “getpoint” but I don’t get how to do this.

Thanks for your help!

I think you should use AddConstructionPoints

GetPoint gp = new GetPoint();
gp.AddConstructionPoints(myListOfPoints);

Thanks for helping. I tried to use this but I don’t get how you cast the RhinoObjects as point3D?

For Each Node As Rhino.DocObjects.RhinoObject In doc.Objects.FindByLayer(“Nodes”)
If Node.ObjectType = DocObjects.ObjectType.Point Then
getPointAction.AddConstructionPoint(trycast(Node, point3D)) 'this does not work
End If
Next

Matthieu,

If you want to ‘select’ point objects, use GetObject.

protected override Result RunCommand(RhinoDoc doc, RunMode mode)
{
  var go = new GetObject();
  go.SetCommandPrompt("Select points");
  go.GeometryFilter = ObjectType.Point;
  go.GetMultiple(1, 0);
  if (go.CommandResult() == Result.Success)
  {
    foreach (var obj_ref in go.Objects())
    {
      var point_obj = obj_ref.Point();
      if (null != point_obj)
        RhinoApp.WriteLine("{0}", point_obj.Location.ToString());
    }
  }
  return Result.Success;
}

If you want to ‘pick’ point locations, use GetPoint.

– Dale

Some of the geometry in a Rhino document has a “simple” representation (a point, line, circle, arc, ellipse, sphere, etc.) and an object representation, that wraps the simple representation. When you get a reference to a point in the document, you get a Point object, that has a .Location property of type Point3d. So, I think you can do this in your code (replace line 3)

getPointAcion.AddConstructionPoint(Node.Location)

Thank you Dale, thanks to you I understood the difference between GetObject and GetPoint.

So now that I really select a point object (and not a point location), how could I filter the selection to a particular Layer?

Define a custom GetObject class like this:

internal class GetPointObjectFromLayer : GetObject
{
  private readonly int m_layer_index;

  public GetPointObjectFromLayer(int layerIndex)
  {
    m_layer_index = layerIndex;
  }

  public override bool CustomGeometryFilter(RhinoObject rhObject, GeometryBase geometry, ComponentIndex componentIndex)
  {
    if (null != rhObject && null != geometry)
    {
      var point_obj = geometry as Rhino.Geometry.Point;
      if (null != point_obj && m_layer_index == rhObject.Attributes.LayerIndex)
        return true;
    }
    return false;
  }
}

Then use it like this:

protected override Result RunCommand(RhinoDoc doc, RunMode mode)
{
  int layer_index = doc.Layers.FindByFullPath("Default", true);
  if (layer_index < 0)
    return Result.Nothing;

  var go = new GetPointObjectFromLayer(layer_index);
  go.SetCommandPrompt("Select points");
  go.GetMultiple(1, 0);
  if (go.CommandResult() == Result.Success)
  {
    foreach (var obj_ref in go.Objects())
    {
      var point_obj = obj_ref.Point();
      if (null != point_obj)
        RhinoApp.WriteLine("{0}", point_obj.Location.ToString());
    }
  }

  return Result.Success;
}

– Dale

This is awesome! Thank you so much dale!