Using number text objects for making a list

Hi there,

I'm wondering if there's any way I can take a bunch of text object numbers from rhino and use them as a list of integers in grasshopper.

I basically have a site model to make with several hundred blocks that would have to be extruded to specific heigths. the height numbers are given as a text object in the center of each one of the blocks in the floorplan...

Hoping I could use grasshopper to save some time, but it might be a job for rhino script maybe. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Cheers,

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 21, 2011 at 4:56am

Here's a grasshopper script that will get text dot objects from rhino and return their contents and location.

If what you have are 3d text objects, you'll need to figure out a way to convert them to dots (I think this is also rhinoscriptable - see here for the reverse process: http://wiki.mcneel.com/developer/scriptsamples/convertdotstotext)

Hope this helps....

Attachments:

getDots.ghx, 34 KB

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 21, 2011 at 5:41am

and here's a rhinoscript that will convert your text objects to dots:

Option Explicit

Call Main()

Sub Main()

Dim arrObjects, strObject arrObjects = Rhino.AllObjects

If IsArray(arrObjects) Then

For Each strObject In arrObjects

If Rhino.IsText(strObject)

Then Rhino.SelectObject strObject

Dim txtText, txtPt

txtText = Rhino.TextObjectText(strObject)

txtPt = Rhino.TextObjectPoint(strObject)

Rhino.AddTextDot txtText,txtPt

Rhino.DeleteObject (strObject)

End If

End Sub

Permalink Reply by Linda Hagberg on November 25, 2012 at 10:45am

Hi, this is exactly what I need to do but unfortunately I can't get your script to work, any clue what might be the issue? I'm working in rhino4 sr9..

Thanks,

Linda

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