Creating polygons with a for loop?

frederik_larsen108

I would like to create multiple polygons with a for loop depending on some info from the user, right now i just create one at a time because i cant iterate an id name?

Now i go like:

skRegularPolygon(sketch, "polygon2", {

                "center" : pointArray[2],

                "firstVertex" : vector(pointArray[2][0]+(4)*millimeter, pointArray[2][1]+(4)*millimeter),

                "sides" : 4

            });

            skRegularPolygon(sketch, "polygon3", {

                "center" : pointArray[3],

                "firstVertex" : vector(pointArray[3][0]+(4)*millimeter, pointArray[3][1]+(4)*millimeter),

                "sides" : 4

            });

            skRegularPolygon(sketch, "polygon4", {

                "center" : pointArray[4],

                "firstVertex" : vector(pointArray[4][0]+(4)*millimeter, pointArray[4][1]+(4)*millimeter),

                "sides" : 4

            });


BUT.. i would like to do something like

        for (var i = 0; i < count; i += 1)

        {

             skRegularPolygon(sketch, "polygon" + i, {

                "center" : pointArray[i],

                "firstVertex" : vector(pointArray[i][0]+(4)*millimeter, pointArray[i][1]+(4)*millimeter),

                "sides" : 4

            });

        }

It is the ID that gives me an error because it needs to be unique..

konstantin_shiriazdanov

in this case id should be a string like "polygon"~i, because plus operator is overloaded for id type to create id hierarhy

konstantin_shiriazdanov

in this case id should be a string like "polygon"~i, because plus operator is overloaded for id type to create id hierarhy

lemon1324

You can also do something like id + i + "polygon", which will also work.  I tend to use this structure when there's multiple different features within the loop, so all features at loop iteration i have Id prefix of id + i.

lana

@lemon1324
That is a sketch entity id - it has to be a string, not Id. Sorry we made it confusing.