Check the drawing direction of a polyline

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Hi,
how can I find the drawing direction of a (closed) polyline with c#? Is there a property or method available or does one have a code snippet 🙂

TIA
Herbert

[Anonymous]

h.putz@eurogis.de wrote:

> how can I find the drawing direction of a (closed) polyline with c#?
> Is there a property or method available or does one have a code
> snippet 🙂

Calculate the area (yourself), I think it's called Double Meridian
Distance. If the result is negative, your polyline is counterclockwise.

Terry

[Anonymous]

Terry,

Am Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:22:17 +0000 schrieb Terry W. Dotson:

> h.putz@eurogis.de wrote:
>
>> how can I find the drawing direction of a (closed) polyline with c#?
>> Is there a property or method available or does one have a code
>> snippet 🙂
>
> Calculate the area (yourself), I think it's called Double Meridian
> Distance. If the result is negative, your polyline is counterclockwise.

thank you for your hint,

this is working:

///

/// Methode GetAreaDMD( Polyline oPoly)
/// Berechnet die Fläche eines geschlossenen Polygons nach der
/// DoubleMeridianDistance-Methode
/// (-(x1*y2)-(x2*y3)-...(xn*y1)+(y1*x2)+(y2*x3)+...(yn*x1))/2
///

///

[Bryco]

Herbert your formula has 1 too many loops.
You are getting the area of triangles and the total should be double the actual area of the pline.
The divide by 2 step is not needed for this function, so is not used

int count=pline.NumberOfVertices-1;
Point2d p1, p2;
for(int i = 0;i < count;i++)
{
p1=pline.GetPoint2dAt(i);
p2=pline.GetPoint2dAt(i+1);
Sum = Sum + ((p1.X * p2.Y) - (p1.Y * p2.X));
}
p1 = p2;
p2 = pline.GetPoint2dAt(0);
Sum = Sum + ((p1.X * p2.Y) - (p1.Y * p2.X));

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Hi,

this one works with polyline arc segments too

{code}public double PlineAlgebraicArea(Polyline pl)
{
Point2d p0 = pl.GetPoint2dAt(0);
double area = 0.0;
double bulge = pl.GetBulgeAt(0);
int last = pl.NumberOfVertices - 1;
double tmpArea;

if (bulge != 0.0)
{
CircularArc2d arc = pl.GetArcSegment2dAt(0);
double arcRadius = arc.Radius;
double arcAngle = 4.0 * Math.Atan(bulge);
area += ArcAlgebraicArea(arcRadius, arcAngle);
}
for (int i = 1; i < last; i++)
{
area += TriangleAlgebricArea(p0, pl.GetPoint2dAt(i), pl.GetPoint2dAt(i + 1));
bulge = pl.GetBulgeAt(i);
if (bulge != 0.0)
{
CircularArc2d arc = pl.GetArcSegment2dAt(i);
double arcRadius = arc.Radius;
double arcAngle = 4.0 * Math.Atan(bulge);
area += ArcAlgebraicArea(arcRadius, arcAngle);
}
}
bulge = pl.GetBulgeAt(last);
if (bulge != 0.0)
{
CircularArc2d arc = pl.GetArcSegment2dAt(last);
double arcRadius = arc.Radius;
double arcAngle = 4.0 * Math.Atan(bulge);
area += ArcAlgebraicArea(arcRadius, arcAngle);
}
return area;
}

public double TriangleAlgebraicArea(Point2d p0, Point2d p1, Point2d p2)
{
return (((p1.X - p0.X) * (p2.Y - p0.Y)) - ((p2.X - p0.X) * (p1.Y - p0.Y))) / 2.0;
}

public double ArcAlgebraicArea(double rad, double ang)
{
return rad * rad * (ang - Math.Sin(ang)) / 2.0;
}{code}