Not sure if serengeti is right category… but,
Wish to have a virtual caliper that will stop right when it’s edges hits an object.
Other measurment devices like protracter would also be goodto place on reference pictures.
Not sure if serengeti is right category… but,
Wish to have a virtual caliper that will stop right when it’s edges hits an object.
Other measurment devices like protracter would also be goodto place on reference pictures.
Hello - BoundingBox
will do that but you need to orient the CPlane to the measurment direction. Set Output=None to just get the measurements of the box.
Hmm- I take that back - None does not report the measurements - that can probably be fixed, but you’ll need some output to get the measurements printed to the command line.
@Toshiaki_Takano - see if this plug-in does anything at all like what you want… it’s still pretty messy but it should work, more or less, for measuring at a user defined plane (3pt only currenty, first two set the measurement direction) and optionally adding a dimension and ‘caliper’ lines… Command is Caliper
Caliper.rhp (24.5 KB)
Workflow so far:
Select the objects to measure.
Set a measurement direction with two points. If you stop there with Enter, the measurement plane will be parallel to the CPlane and through the first pick point. If you set a third point, the three will define the plane on which the caliper lies. Currently by default the distance reads out at the command line in model units and adds a dimension.
Set the command line options:
-Pascal
Wish is a bit related to manipulating a curve with history to another curve so that when the curve reaches a point which they intersect,
The manipulated curve stops moving.
Result: two intersection lines.
Use cases: curves for networksrf, edgesrf that would keep the intersection.
if two parallel lines can be made so that the stop at the point where it reaches a surface… that’d be an alternative.
Thank you for the script! I’ll try it out!