Coordinate/Vector input parameter

imants_smidchens

Hi! Novice featurescripter here, what's the best way to have a UI that lets you input points in comma-separated coordinate form (for now cartesian is enough)?
A [bad] approach I think might work is asking for a string input, then parsing that string and converting to a vector, but that makes typechecking much harder.
Ideally would function in an array parameter or something similar so you can place as many points as you want

Cheers!
- Imants

eric_pesty

You could take a look at the "3d points" feature, it looks like it uses a string approach:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/576d1e60c6cb90985345ac37/v/6bdd1ac65b1e423b1a692568/e/0ea78f371cbafb95ea304449

You could also use an array for inputting multiple ones, either an array of strings as above.
Or if you don't mind the input requiring a bit more work, an array with each requiring 3inputs for x,y,z (more "tabing" between input cells would be required), this way you don't have to worry about units:

        annotation { "Name" : "Points", "Item name" : "Coordinates", "Item label template" : "coordinates" }
        definition.points is array;

        for (var coord in definition.points)
        {
            annotation { "Name" : "X" }
            isLength(coord.X, LENGTH_BOUNDS);

            annotation { "Name" : "Y" }
            isLength(coord.Y, LENGTH_BOUNDS);

            annotation { "Name" : "Z" }
            isLength(coord.Z, LENGTH_BOUNDS);

        }

MichaelPascoe

isAnything would probably work. It could look something like this:

FeatureScript 1847;
import(path : "onshape/std/geometry.fs", version : "1847.0");

annotation { "Feature Type Name" : "Vector arrays" }
export const vectorArrays = defineFeature(function(context is Context, id is Id, definition is map)
    precondition
    {
        annotation { "Name" : "Vectors", "Item name" : "Vector", "Item label template" : "Vector" }
        definition.vectors is array;
        for (var vector in definition.vectors)
        {
            annotation { "Name" : "Vector", "Default" : "[0,0,0]" }
            isAnything(vector.vect);
        }
    }
    {
        for (var i = 0; i < size(definition.vectors); i += 1)
        {
            const x = definition.vectors[i].vect[0];
            const y = definition.vectors[i].vect[1];
            const z = definition.vectors[i].vect[2];
            
            opPoint(context, id + i + "point1", {
                    "point" : vector(x,y,z) * inch
            });
            
            addDebugEntities(context, qCreatedBy(id + i + "point1", EntityType.VERTEX), DebugColor.GREEN);
        }
    });

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fd25eb49ed0b337b8b6ce216/w/cc40be845773e9603fd45fe7/e/c567751317dbecfad1d202a1?renderMode=0&uiState=633b333d1e9631446ce0b25f

EvanReese

I did it with three separate length inputs in my 3D Points and Freeform Spline features. If you want a single line input, then Michael's is good, or the string method as you described, but both of those are easy for users to do wrong, and it also requires some separate field to choose units. I'm also pretty sure "novice" isn't the right classification for you, Imants . You've made some great features!

steve_shubin

Multimate Connector has long had UI that I've used and liked

Can't seem to find the orginal document but here is one I did

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f044ddc8d35e56ddf664cf5b/w/38d7f9552f87669c5214103a/e/5657845114584e71500268cb

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