TIP: use timer component with object selection to get real time feedback

I found myself needing to know the elevations of some objects while I was working on a drawing. I wanted to be able to just click on the object and get it's elevation. This particular drawing was a grading/site plan that had various object types imported from other applications.

(Contours from ACAD, spot elevations/blocks from Civil3d, etc). Also discovered that our spot elevation blocks from Civil 3D stored their elevation data as user text. Very handy.

By adding a timer component to the human component "objects by selection", I was able to just click on various objects, without resetting the boolean toggle, (that's what the timer component did). NOTE: I wouldn't leave it on all the time as it is constantly refreshing and might throw an error once in a while), but it was a handy little utility for me while working out some grading options.

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on July 11, 2016 at 5:51pm

Hey Chris -

Thanks for sharing this! For a long time this is also how I was doing "Live" selection reporting. However, the latest version of Human (not sure if I've put it up on food4rhino yet to be honest) has a "Live" mode built-in to the objects by selection component - so no timer is necessary! Just right click and choose live and it will automatically refresh when the current selection is changed.

Try it out and let me know what you think!

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Permalink Reply by Erick Vásquez on July 11, 2016 at 9:35pm

I used that method too, thanks Andrew nice implementation, this is an old script to evaluate the rotation to the closest camera plane (clock or anti clockwise) without bake...