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Navisworks API: Point Line Measurement, extract intermediate coordinates\points

shaungsaggers — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 22:58:21 GMT

Does anyone know if it's possible, using the Navisworks API, to get the intermediate coordinates for the points used to take a Point Line Measurement?

I have created a plugin that returns the Start and End coordinates of the current measurement, and can export these to a text file, however I want to get ALL of the points along the measured Point Line.

My alternative would be to learn how to create a new tool via the API and capture the points as they are picked, but that sounds like a lot more work just to learn how to create the tool, and I can't justify that much overhead for this task, so I'd prefer to find a way to extract the points picked using the built in Point Line Measurement tool.

Re: Navisworks API: Point Line Measurement, extract intermediate coordinates\points

naveen.kumar.t — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 11:59:58 GMT

Hi @shaungsaggers ,

You're question doesn't really make sense. There are an infinite number of points along a line...

Or are you wanting to get all the points in a multi-point measurement? If so, I think you can listen to the event and just capture them that way (i.e. the end point will keep changing)

Re: Navisworks API: Point Line Measurement, extract intermediate coordinates\points

shaungsaggers — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 06:18:11 GMT

It probably makes more sense if you're familiar with the measurement tools in Navisworks. In the software (as well as the classes available to the API), a "Point Line" measurement measures the cumulative length along a path defined by a series of specified points.

It's those intermediate points that I was hoping to be able to get AFTER the measurement has been made.

I've since solved it, by getting the points as they are picked. Not quite the way I was hoping it would work, but it'll do the

job.