topic Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view? in FlexSim Forum

Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

kari_payton — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 19:30:04 GMT

[ FlexSim 18.0.1 ]

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

Matthew_Gillespie — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 21:54:00 GMT

I'm not sure what you're envisioning. Could you be more specific?

You can drag text objects into the model view and then tie them to the size values of an object, but the Quick Properties panel already displays those values live.

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

kari_payton — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 22:33:13 GMT

yeah that's what i'm referring to. i meant if i could display them on each object instead of adding them manually. Like on a CAD drawing or 3D model you can "add dimensions" for objects. Make sense? @Matthew Gillespie

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

mischa_spelt — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 10:37:51 GMT

You could use the custom draw trigger to draw the dimensions next to the objects themselves.

In the attached model you'll find some old code that I "FlexSim 2018-ified". It could use some tweaking, mostly in the alignment of the texts, because getdrawtextmetric seems to behave differently than I expected and I didn't bother looking into that, but hopefully it'll give you the right idea.

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

kari_payton — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 15:15:58 GMT

@Mischa Spelt thanks but I couldn't get it to work for objects where I changed the object's shape.

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

mischa_spelt — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:17:52 GMT

How do you mean? This code should work on any object - it does not use the shape, just the size of the bounding box (spatialsx, y and z).

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

kari_payton — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:54:56 GMT

i used the function object.size and it returned an array for the object on the left. But when i run your code it doesn't display the values like you see on the queue. @Mischa Spelt

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

mischa_spelt — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 16:59:01 GMT

If you click the object, then where is the yellow box? Does the shape happen to extend past the object boundaries, in which case it would cover the drawtext result?

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

kari_payton — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:40:45 GMT

10296-showdimensions-2-with-mold.fsm @Mischa Spelt

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

philboboADSK — Tue, 09 Jan 2018 20:50:59 GMT

The script in this model is adding the code to Fixed Resource objects.

Your shape isn't a fixed resource.

If you add the code to your shape's Custom Draw trigger, then it draws fine:

DrawDimensions(current, view);

Or remove the isclasstype() check on line 4 of the script and execute it again.

Re: Is there an option to display x,y,z size values in Model view?

mischa_spelt — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 09:57:33 GMT

Yep, I added the check because the forobjecttreeunder will also find all items in the Toolbox, for example, thereby adding the draw function to all Flow Bin items such as operators as well.