Get the Z distance between 2 objects: a 2 point generic adaptive and a topography

[nnguyen]

Hi Can someone help with this:
I have made a 2 point adaptive generic models that intersect a topography, in order to get the Z direction from any building elevation to the topo. At the moment, I place the first adaptive point to say a corner of the parapet roof, the second adaptive point at below the topo. Then I move the second adaptive point manually so it intersect with the topo. Then I run the script to get the Z direction between point 1 and 2. See graph.

Is there an automatic way to move the second point to be snap in the topo ? or a way to measure the first point and its distance to the topo ?

Many thanks.

[Jean-Marc]

Hi,
quick answer to your second question, check the OOTB geometry.distanceTo node Dynamo Dictionary

[Jean-Marc]

and to reply to your first question, dig into this:

Moving adaptive points with Dynamo

Hi Viktor, Thanks for the replay. Sure, find here an image of my code and also my dynamo script where I try to move 4 adaptive points to 4 different locations. Move Adaptive Point_Multiple.dyn (26.0 KB) [image] [image] Regards, Sergio

or this

Set Location of Adaptative points in an Adaptative Components

hi @talbimam, Sorry I do not understand how I can controle the points with this command (surface.pointatparameters). I have already a old an new position point, what I want is just make the translation. I was thinking in generate this movement via python. adaptComp = AdaptiveComponentInstanceUtils.CreateAdaptiveComponentInstance(doc, famsymb) adptPoints = AdaptiveComponentInstanceUtils.GetInstancePlacementPointElementRefIds(adaptComp) aPt1 = doc.get_Element(adptPoints[0]) aPt…

[Deniz_Maral]

You can get the geometry of topo and then use Point.Project node to get point on topo.

[nnguyen]

Thanks Jean. Will take a look.

[nnguyen]

Thanks Deniz will take a look.

[nnguyen]

Thanks everyone. I was able to get this working, using Spring nodes Geometry.IndexByDistance.
Pretty sweat