How to query a sketch in the preconditions?

traveler_hauptman

I'd like the user to grab a sketch as one of the parameters. This can be done with the provided extrude tool, but I can't figure out what filter combination will allow this in featurescript. I tried bisecting qEverything with a heap of filters and my best guess is that sketches are not in qEverything. But since the extrude tool can see sketches, they must be somewhere....

My goal is to grab all points in the sketch, regardless of count. Group selecting individual points is not the same because the feature would need to be manually updated if the user changes the sketch.

Ideas?

ilya_baran

This is actually a bit more tricky than I like -- extrude is a different case because it wants sketch *regions* not sketches themselves.  Here's what I came up with (using the feature list parameter that's also used in feature patterns).  The downside is that the UI does not prevent you from selecting features that are not sketches -- I think we have some filtering work to do.

annotation { "Feature Type Name" : "My Feature" }
export const myFeature = defineFeature(function(context is Context, id is Id, definition is map)
    precondition
    {
        annotation { "Name" : "Sketches" }
        definition.sketches is FeatureList;
    }
    {
        var queries = [];
        for (var entry in definition.sketches) // keys are feature ids
            queries = append(queries, qCreatedBy(entry.key, EntityType.VERTEX));
        const pointQuery = qBodyType(qUnion(queries), [BodyType.WIRE, BodyType.POINT]);
        
        // Now pointQuery has all the points of all the selected sketch wire bodies (sketch entities)
        // Keep in mind that when you have two sketch curves meet at a vertex, you will have two vertices (one for each) not one.  clusterPoints may help if that's a problem.
        debug(context, pointQuery);
    }, { /* default parameters */ });

traveler_hauptman

Nice! I hadn't found FeatureList yet. I should be able to exclude most non-sketch features based on their contents.

Matthew_Hill

ilya_baran said:

This is actually a bit more tricky than I like -- extrude is a different case because it wants sketch *regions* not sketches themselves.  Here's what I came up with (using the feature list parameter that's also used in feature patterns).  The downside is that the UI does not prevent you from selecting features that are not sketches -- I think we have some filtering work to do.

annotation { "Feature Type Name" : "My Feature" }
export const myFeature = defineFeature(function(context is Context, id is Id, definition is map)
    precondition
    {
        annotation { "Name" : "Sketches" }
        definition.sketches is FeatureList;
    }
    {
        var queries = [];
        for (var entry in definition.sketches) // keys are feature ids
            queries = append(queries, qCreatedBy(entry.key, EntityType.VERTEX));
        const pointQuery = qBodyType(qUnion(queries), [BodyType.WIRE, BodyType.POINT]);
        
        // Now pointQuery has all the points of all the selected sketch wire bodies (sketch entities)
        // Keep in mind that when you have two sketch curves meet at a vertex, you will have two vertices (one for each) not one.  clusterPoints may help if that's a problem.
        debug(context, pointQuery);
    }, { /* default parameters */ });

I tried using this method to select multiple points created by a linear sketch pattern. However, regardless of how many points I have or how they are generated the size of my pointQuery does not exceed 3.

ilya_baran

How do you measure the "size of my pointQuery"?  Using size(pointQuery) just gives you the size of the map that encodes the query -- be sure to use evaluateQuery(context, myQuery) to count the number of things it resolves to.  debug will also print out the number of entities a query resolves to.

Matthew_Hill

ilya_baran said:

How do you measure the "size of my pointQuery"?  Using size(pointQuery) just gives you the size of the map that encodes the query -- be sure to use evaluateQuery(context, myQuery) to count the number of things it resolves to.  debug will also print out the number of entities a query resolves to.

Thanks that worked!