cplane to grasshopper

hi there,

I´m trying to get the 3d information of my current rhino view to grasshopper. I want to use it as projection plane....

I set cplane to view, and was trying to reference a plane to gh.
Not very elegant though....

I guess it works with the VB Rhino.NamedCPlane... ?

I just can´t get it to work....

thx

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Permalink Reply by Evan Chakroff on July 23, 2012 at 9:42pm

Anyone have an answer for this? It would be great to be able to reference the current or named CPlanes in GH....

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on July 24, 2012 at 1:50am

What do you need this for Evan? There's more than one CPlane active if you have more than one viewport and they change all the time without any event being raised to denote these changes.

David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Poprad, Slovakia

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Permalink Reply by Evan Chakroff on July 24, 2012 at 2:04am

Just realized that... that the active CPlane changes whenever you switch views...

Basically, I was hoping to reference one of my custom Named CPlane, not the CPlane from the active viewport... (Specifically, I have a large masterplan file, several different buildings which use different base grids, but GH def I'm building is treating all buildings as part of one system... (and my working model needs to remain rotated Y-axis = north).

I did find a way to reference the *active* CPlane, after some digging through rhino.common... in a VB component:

Dim cplane As Rhino.DocObjects.ConstructionPlane =
RhinoDoc.ActiveDoc.Views.ActiveView.MainViewport.GetConstructionPlane()

A = cplane.Plane

So there's the answer the Robin's 2-year-old question.... but I would still like to find a way to reference the CPlanes saved under "Named CPlanes"...