Using Make2D with DetailViews?

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Hi all, I wonder if someone might be able to direct me to some ‘best practices’ for using Grasshopper’s Make2D tools? I can’t seem to sort out the right way to utilize them and I wonder if there is guide or something that walks though the right way to set those up?

I like the Make2D line-control very much, and I’d love to be able to use it in more outputs. I wonder if there is a ‘right’ way to get those lines to show/align in a Layout and DetailView?

for instance, if I have a very simple mass, and I do the Make2D, that’s all good, but I don’t understand how to get that linework to show properly in a Layout DetailView?

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I was experimenting with grabbing the DetailView’s Transform and applying that to the linework in order to get the geometry aligned to the page, but I can’t seem to make that work? If I find and apply the WorldToPage transform, as well as the Page’s Scale factor, I can get the right geometry

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buts its way off in a location that I don’t understand?

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I must be misunderstanding something here or doing something incorrect - but I can’t seem to figure out what? If anyone might be able to point me in the right direction, I would very much appreciate it. I would just like to be able to use those Grasshopper Make2D components to create linework in a DetailView - seems like that should be possible, no?

thanks so much for any thoughts, example gh file attached.
best,
@ed.p.may
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example.gh (16.2 KB)

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You can use Move or Orient inside GH to move the Make2D geometry away from the origin, if that’s where your model happens to be. Then just manually re-center the detail view on wherever your GH Make2D geometry is generated inside model-space.

If you’re trying to automate the creation of details views themselves that probably requires Python/C#, etc.

If you always want a detail view that is exactly the size of the page layout (aka a drawing centered on the page), I usually make a rectangle in Rhino model space that’s the same size as the page layout, selecte that rectangle inside the detail, then zoom-selected to center the detail on the rectangle. Then set your scale in the detail to 1:1. This only works if model and layout units are the same.

Am I understanding your question correctly?