Preset Number Slider Value

[Nick_Boyts]

Gotcha. That does make it more involved. As others have mentioned, an extension is probably the way to go.

Only other suggestion I can give you with ootb nodes is to use two points. One point as your “control point” that can be dragged around and a second point that’s just a translation of your control point but with an offset of your specified elevation. But that only works if your points are close enough to view at the same time.

[leonard.moelders]

@Nick_Boyts

But that only works if your points are close enough to view at the same time.

Thats a way that I already thought of, but this isn’t handy enough for e.g 50 control points, like you already assumed.

I already contacted the developer of the DynaShape Package as they managed to make points movable in any direction whithout a number slider. But dragging these points only in z-direction is a mess. I hope I get a reply to my message to him soon.

I looked at the code on github (https://github.com/LongNguyenP/DynaShape/blob/master/DynaShape/ZeroTouch/Solver.cs), but couldn’t figure it out completely, but it has something to do with this:

solver.EnableMouseInteraction = enableManipulation

as you switch the manipulation or dragging of points on with a boolean node.

[Vikram_Subbaiah]

@leonard.moelders

but this isn’t handy enough for e.g 50 control points

Consider this, you’ll need to manually enter the initial Z coordinate values of the 50 control points in the number sliders by referring to the values in the Watch Node.
The example below has only 3 control points. Similar to your approach, but using Design Script.

ReplacePointAtIndexWithHandlePoints1.dyn (21.1 KB)

// Grid of Points
pnt1 = Point.ByCoordinates((1..7)<1>,(1..7)<2>,1);

pnt2 = List.Flatten(pnt1, -1);

// Indices of Points to Replace
ind1 = [12,25,40];

// Initial Positions of Replaced Points
rpl1 = List.GetItemAtIndex(pnt2,ind1);
rpx1 = rpl1[0].X;
rpy1 = rpl1[0].Y;
rpx2 = rpl1[1].X;
rpy2 = rpl1[1].Y;
rpx3 = rpl1[2].X;
rpy3 = rpl1[2].Y;

pnt3 = List.ReplaceItemAtIndex(pnt2,ind1[0],rep1);
pnt4 = List.ReplaceItemAtIndex(pnt3,ind1[1],rep2);
pnt5 = List.ReplaceItemAtIndex(pnt4,ind1[2],rep3);
pnt6 = List.Chop(pnt5,List.Count(pnt1));

[jacob.small]

@leonard.moelders

Thats doesn’t work as then the point can’t be dragged in the 3D view

I’m confused again.

You want the flexibility to drag but when you open the graph you want it to default to the original Z value? Or you want to programmatically push other Z values while maintaining a manual geometry manipulation capacity?

You can use a Z value to offset another point and adjust those values as desired, but I think what you are actually looking for is a tool which isn’t out of the box Dynamo (ie: DynaShape, or a custom UI tool for point manipulation).

[leonard.moelders]

@jacob.small

You want the flexibility to drag but when you open the graph you want it to default to the original Z value? Or you want to programmatically push other Z values while maintaining a manual geometry manipulation capacity?

I want a point that can be placed at a specific coordinate and afterwards still be moved in the z-axis in 3D view with my mouse.

Or a code that inserts a specific value for each number slider once, so that I don’t have to enter it in each number slider manually.

[leonard.moelders]

@Vikram_Subbaiah

Consider this, you’ll need to manually enter the initial Z coordinate values of the 50 control points in the number sliders

Is there a way to do this automatically?

[leonard.moelders]

Hey there,

first of all I want to say thank you to all of you for your suggestions and advices. I managed to solve my problem with the DynaShape Package as I found out how to drag the handle points only in z-axis

As this fits better to my other topic, where I am looking for a Package that allows to drag points in only z-axis, I will upload a video this evening there where I show you what I came up with.

Move points by dragging them in 3D view

Hello there, I am currently working on a soil model and the creating of the model isn’t the problem. My problem is to manipulate the layers in the 3D view. I know that i can create a point with z-value from the number slider node to create a draggable point. Unfortunately this is not handy, as e.g. 50 handle points in a surface would need 50 single points. The next problem is, that I can not preset the number slider value. For example my soil model gets created by my code from topology and bore…

@jacob.small

Nevertheless I am still really interested in your approach on presetting a number slider via a view extension!