Picking Point Objects
Windows only

by Dale Fugier (Last updated:  Wednesday, December 12, 2018)

How To

If you need the user to define a 3D point location, you can use a CRhinoGetPoint object. But, if the points already exist as objects in Rhino, you will need to use a CRhinoGetObject object to pick them. Then, you can determine the 3D coordinates of that point object, for example:

CRhinoGetObject go;
go.SetCommandPrompt( L"Select point" );
go.SetGeometryFilter( CRhinoGetObject::point_object );
CRhinoGet::result res = go.GetObjects( 1, 1 );
if( res == CRhinoGet::object )
{
  const CRhinoObjRef& objref = go.Object(0);
  const ON_Point* pt = objref.Point();
  if( pt )
    RhinoApp().Print(L"Point: %f,%f,%f", pt->point.x, pt->point.y, pt->point.z);
}

If you needed access to the CRhinoPointObject object, you could do this:

CRhinoGetObject go;
go.SetCommandPrompt( L"Select point" );
go.SetGeometryFilter( CRhinoGetObject::point_object );
CRhinoGet::result res = go.GetObjects( 1, 1 );
if( res == CRhinoGet::object )
{
  const CRhinoObjRef& objref = go.Object(0);
  const CRhinoPointObject* point_object = CRhinoPointObject::Cast( objref.Object() );
  if( point_object )
  {
    const ON_Point& pt = point_object->Point();
    RhinoApp().Print(L"Point: %f,%f,%f", pt.point.x, pt.point.y, pt.point.z);
  }
}

Here is how you can pick one or more point objects:

CRhinoGetObject go;
go.SetCommandPrompt( L"Select points" );
go.SetGeometryFilter( CRhinoGetObject::point_object );
CRhinoGet::result res = go.GetObjects( 1, 0 );
if( res == CRhinoGet::object )
{
  int i;
  for( i = 0; i < go.ObjectCount(); i++ )
  {
    const CRhinoObjRef& objref = go.Object(i);
    const ON_Point* point = objref.Point();
    if( point )
      RhinoApp().Print( L"Point %d: %f,%f,%f",
                        i,
                        point->point.x,
                        point->point.y,
                        point->point.z );
  }
}