Is there a way to get the XYZ coordinates of a mouse clicked point on an object? (Featurescript)

mehmet_reşat_halıcı

Hello everyone,

I am almost entirely new to featurescript. I would like the user to select a point (any point) on a surface and receive its XYZ coordinates. My end goal is to create mate connectors at that given coordinate. Sadly, queries only allow you to select existing vertices and so on. From what I've seen, the closest thing to this was prompting the user to select a reference point and then let them manipulate it with 3 other queries for the respective coordinates. I've looked at raycasts, but they seem different from a raycast that would be in something such as a game engine. Is there something I am overlooking? Your help is greatly appreciated.

NeilCooke

You are correct - there is no way to capture mouse coordinates, only entity selection.

jelte_steur814

I took this up as a FeatureScript challenge. Would this work for you?

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1a55ad6f72725030622fcaed/v/81612ea7570b93f7d4fed9c9/e/04184ad223c3e4e93f00010c

Konst_Sh

The triad manipulator is a way to go for this, you place it on surface at some starting point and in manipulator change function you projecting current position of its origin to reference body and returning new coordinates. This loop will emulate the constraint as if manipulator was binded to reference entities, and it makes sure that the point defined by manipulator lies on the boundary of the body

jelte_steur814

@Konst_Sh
I got it to work with two tangent manipulators. I think it works quite intuitive for the user this way.

Couldn't help myself and clean the feature up and finish it for a published version.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1a55ad6f72725030622fcaed/v/3c016bc158695074012ef1c2/e/e52fcce23bf1b6e4f743df3c?renderMode=0&uiState=665d87e859cc5e4992a88c1d

Konst_Sh

@jelte_steur814 recently was added new 6 DOF triad manipulator which might be the best for this type of locating