Vector or not vector ?

thierry_malet

Hello, i would like to make an simple cuboid with coordinate of a selected point, 
i copy code from an "mesure value" FS existing code and i just reused a little part of it

but i don't know why "result" .value know as vector couldn't replace a vector(x,y,z) ?

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fda00c1195e7580861511e84/w/3daf66389302de733d5dd7c7/e/b8d7fb7c4e612cd57d17307b

   
i try "corner1" : Vector (result)*millimeter,    but didn't work



but when i look result should be a vector 
 

Could you help me

eric_pesty

On my phone so can't dig into details but I think you should be able to use "result" directly for corner 1 as it already has length units. What you have there looks like it would be length^2...

eric_pesty

Had a quick look from the office this morning:

This gets rid of the error as expected since "result" already has length units.

fCuboid(context, id + "cuboid1", {
              "corner1" : result,//vector(result)* millimeter, 
              "corner2" : vector(1, 1, 1) * definition.myLength
      });              

As a side note, "corner2" has to be the "absolute" coordinates so what you currently have does weird stuff. I'm guessing what you were going for would be achieved with something like this:

              "corner2" : result + vector(1, 1, 1) * definition.myLength

thierry_malet

Thanks, it's simply !! i  thought i had tried this combination, but sometime when "my.length" create an 0 mm edge for cuboid, feature failed,

EvanReese

Not exactly what you asked, and may not apply here, but sometimes it's easier to just make an object on the origin, and use opPattern() or opTransform() in a loop to copy it all over the place, instead of trying to calculate the corner vectors for each fCuboid().

NeilCooke

opPattern all day long.