Hello Everybody!
I’m new here, I find there are many interesting and useful tips in this forum, and many people well prepared (for sure many better than me)
I need your help!
I need to place a grid of points with a step of 0,6 m on a surface. This grid should be placed on a new system of coordinates xy that I want Dynamo to detect, following my two vector’s direction ( see the image).
What I was able to do:
Intersect a grid of point with the surface
Define vectors
generate lines passing through the vectors (I want them to correspond to “x”, “y” coordinates system)
What I’m not able to do (and I kindly need your help):
To generate the new coordinates system xy on the vectors’ lines
Orientate the previous grid of points on this coordinates system, changing the step of the point to 0,6 meters, with the 0,0 on the new xy system.
Thank you very much @Thomas_Corrie your advice was very helpful!!!
Now I am able to fix the new coordinate system, but when I run the script Dynamo gives me errors, (
something is missing. Maybe I haven’t used the code Transform in the proper way,
I tried to find in other posts an other solution from other people’s issue, but I can see everybody has a different situation…
Excuse my bad translating, but it looks like the “dereferencing a non-pointer” error which is probably due to the empty list at the front of your list of points.
What is the output of the Geometry.Transform node?
Thank you again @Thomas_Corrie!
Now it works , and this is something
the only problem is that it doesn’t work how it should '-.-
Actually the grid of point didn’t move to the desired coordinate system and the z value changed.
I’m sure I’m missing something in my script, the problem is that I don’t know what it is…
I can see you have a good experience, @Thomas_Corrie, do you have suggestions regarding it?
Right now I can see it has changed, not properly in the good way '-.-
My aim is to align the points on the vector lines of the left element in the picture
I’m not quite sure what you’re aiming for because we can’t see the beginnings of your graph (it would be helpful to share the dyn), but if you want the points to be on a grid on your surface that is aligned with a particular coordinate system then you could:
establish coordinate system
move surface from new coordinate system to origin
use PointAtParameter
translate points back to original surface location
Actually you’re right! with my new coordinates system everything changes from the original one .
My aim is to stay on the same z plane, with a rotation and translation of points (staying on the plan xy). (z=0), like I would do in autocad using ucs command.
I think I should fix the original coordinate system (the existing one), like I made for the new one.
About your suggestion, thank you for the clear synthesis!
The only thing is that I need the surface to stay at his place, because it is well placed in the project.
I have had a quick look at your dyn and attach a revised version. I’m afraid I don’t have 1.3 installed so I have done this in Dynamo 2.0.3 but attach a screengrab of the nodes. Your script uses Surface.PointAtParameter with a step of 0.6 which is not the same as 0.6m spacing if that is what you want, if you look closely the points are not equally spaced in x and y. I have used 6m for convenience of display, but could easily be changed to 0.6m.
The surface would only be copied to the origin for ease of calculating minimum and maximum extents with the desired alignment, not moved permanently.
Define coordinate system
Transform surface to origin from new coordinate system
use bounding box to establish min/max limits of surface
within limits array points at desired spacing in x and y
check points intersection with surface and discard points not on surface
transform points from origin to coordinate system
It assumes the surface is level and at the height of your defined coordinate system (otherwise you’ll need to project the points onto the surface)
Wow Thank you @Thomas_Corrie you are a genius !
I copied it on my dyn file, the only thing is that my points don’t cover all the surface when Copying surface back to original location.
Maybe I missed something from your script… I send you here hereby so maybe you can check…
in any case thank you soooo much for your brillant intuition!
Glad to be of assistance. The problem is that the lacing on Geometry.DoesIntersect is set to Auto but needs to be longest. You can see in the number of results that it is returning far fewer than you would expect
Hello @Thomas_Corrie , it’s me again,
I want to ask, by chance, do you know how I can tell dynamo to place elements (points and family instance.ByPoint) on the right level in Revit (-0.35 from level 40)?
I tried to insert the node “Level.Elevation” on the z Translation, but it’s incorrect because I can see that it translates points too hight rather than placing them on the right reference plan . (which is not right cause the point are already placed on the surface in the model, the surface is placed on the 40th level, so the points are logically placed on the 40 level , which is right).
In fact the points are already in the good location with the dynamo file, but when lancing the script in Revit, Revit can’t recognize the right level of the points. The family Instances by point are not placed on the level. They have a good elevation parameter , but wrong reference plan (the z elevation is taken from the origin (0,0,0) .
Now, how can I tell Revit to place points on the the good reference level (-0.35) and not on an elevation taken from the project origin point?
The face input should be the original surface. The vector input controls the direction of the family so would probably be one of the vectors you created to construct the coordinate system
