Hello, I was trying to link a text to its own z coordinate, but it seems that it need to be linked to a point. I thought great I create a point and link to it. It worked! But then I copied the group and the text continued to link to the original point, clearly beating the purpose. I have to plac…

Hi Pascal, I am not familiar with Python and it has been more than a decade since I did RhinoScript. I was able to edit the script so that it would check a text key that I created with the documents real elevation. It works fine. But I would like to ask you a quick help if it is not too difficult…

[image] nsgma: if it would update when moving the text, it would be even better You will get the automatic updates if you use PointCoordinate text field. Make point object. Make text in the same place as the point. Select the text. Click text fields icon in the Properties Panel. Click Point…

Hi N - please PM me with what you have so far. Yes it is possible to add command line options. -Pascal

Hi Andrew Thank you. If you see my first post I mentioned that, but it is not practical because when copying that group the text remains linked to the original point. And each relink are six or seven mouse clicks (I haven’t tried it if it’s on the command line but that would be at least a couple). …

is a grasshopper solution an option? Here i deconstructed the points and added 750 to the Z. [image] requires elefront 4.3 Re_pointsValues.gh (11.3 KB)

Hi Pascal. Thanks. Last night, all I did was to add 476 (the actual elevation of my 0,0,0) to the code: str(round(z+476, 1)) Today, I tried to make more generic, so that the code can be used elsewhere. All I did was to add a key to all the height texts - a very self-explanatory key “Actual Elevat…

I might try to do this in RhinoCommon as it would also solve a long standing issue of my own.

I’ve been trying to achieve something similar myself. I also needed to convert the text to imperial. I’ve been able to successfully create a dynamic spot elevation mark using a Visual ARQ annotation component defined in Grasshopper. I don’t think this is a solution for yourself unless you already ha…

[image] nsgma: FAKECODE Get objects and prompt: "Select texts (Current Reference Elevation = 0)" FAKECODE When user types E, then ask for document elevation input, then SetDocumentUserText ("Document elevation,userinput) FAKECODE Then just added to the z-coord of the text @nsgma - this one i…

This works as a charm!!! Exactly as expected. Thanks a lot, @pascal . I can group it with a block height symbol, and it works pretty well. But ideally the text should be inside the block… that’s another battle :wink: Thanks, again, N

Text displaying the z coordinate

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RH-68819 is fixed in Rhino WIP

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