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Extract Z-coordinate from text to create points

Description RhinoScript Application

RhinoScript Application by simonk

Do you have a lot of text objects that have only 2d information but the text itself stands for the Z-coordinate? This is a common problem when dealing with data from land surveys.

This script inserts a point at the location of each text object but with the text value as Z-coordinate, or it moves the text object itself to the z-plane of the text value, depending of the chosen option.

Version

Version 1 (Oct 19, 2008)

Requirements

Rhino version: Rhino 4

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Comments
  • 1. simonk (Oct 19, 2008 13.20):

    The resulting points could obviously be used to make a patch-surface or a delauney surface (download the delauney plugin by David Rutten here: en.wiki.mcneel.com/default.aspx/McNeel/PointsetReconstr[...]

  • +++ Oct 19, 2008 13.16: Extract Z-coordinate from text to create points version 1 published +++