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RE: [V8i VBA] Detecting if coordinate is above or below target element
Five gold stars for working through matrices from first principles!Excel includes some matrix functions. This web page describes Excel 2010 Matrix Multiplication (MMULT).
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1) Probably not.2) NoYou could use a ChildEditElemIter and apply special logic or a different transform to the "text" components...-B
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When mirroring a cell with text, it is possible to set the TRANSFORM_OPTIONS_DisableMirrorCharacters options and provide a MirrorPlane such that as the cell is rotated, the text elements are 1) not...
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RE: [V8i VBA] Detecting if coordinate is above or below target element
Thanks for the compliment. It has been quite enjoyable but sometimes a headache as well.[quote user="Jon Summers"]Excel includes some matrix functions. This web page describes Excel 2010 Matrix...
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[V8i VBA] Detecting if coordinate is above or below target element
As a followup to one of my previous threads here, the image below is is my target element (its 22miles long) with the placed cells also shown (very hard to see at this scale)This is a close-up where...
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[quote user="Barry Lothian"]Seems long-winded[/quote]MicroStation makes complex operations seem natural. As a programmer, you have to analyse — as you have done — the steps required to accomplish that...
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Morning JonI've been working on implementing the process I outlined and all has gone well up to the point of using EvaluatePointFrame. I have the following code:Dim EPF As Point3d Dim Frame As Matrix3d...
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RE: [V8i VBA] Detecting if coordinate is above or below target element
I may have just solved it. The VBA examples and other posts I have read on here typically have:LinearNormal = Point3dFromXYZ(0, 0, 1)With that set, I am now getting values for Frame in the locals...
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[quote user="Brien Bastings"]You could use a ChildEditElemIter and apply special logic or a different transform to the "text" components...[/quote]Yes - that is what I'm doing.... Bruce
View ArticleRE: [CONNECT C++] Replacement for mdlRMatrix_ functions in CONNECT API
You're probably looking for RotMatrix::FromPrincipleAxisRotations(). fyi mdlRMatrix_rotate() still exists in CONNECT.
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[quote user="Bruce Reeves SRNS"]In CONNECT, how do I perform the equivalent of mdlRMatrix_rotate()[/quote]#include <Mstn/MdlApi/msrmatrx.fdf>
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RotMatrix::FromPrincipleAxisRotations() *seems* like it was what I was looking for, but but when used as in:invMatrix.FromPrincipleAxisRotations(invMatrix, 0.0, 0.0, actAng*fc_piover180); I did not get...
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TIP: A good starting point to bookmark to investigate or review new/replacement API methods for mdlRMatrix and mdlTMatrix functions is the MicroStationAPI.chm help topic: "Linear Transformations:...
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The RotMatrix arg is const. The function returns a new RotMatrix as the product of RX*RY*RZ*M where M is your input matrix. Alternatively use InitFromPrincipleAxisRotations() to do it in-place.
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In pre CONNECT, I do something like:// get the view rotation RotMatrix invMatrix ={0}; mdlRMatrix_getInverse( &invMatrix, (RotMatrixP)ev.GetViewport()->GetRotMatrix() ); // rotate the view...
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[quote user="Bruce Reeves SRNS"]I can't figure out how to get an MSWindowP. I tried mdlNativeWindow_getMainHandle()[/quote]Did you initialise the native window API? From help: The native window...
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I'm wanting to add some text to the main CONNECT application window, but I can't figure out how to get an MSWindowP. I tried mdlNativeWindow_getMainHandle(), but it returns nullptr whether I pass in 0...
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Hi Jon,There are two (indirect) items currently in progress to certainly help all of us with searching, isolating, and identifying correct information across various sources. Please bear with me for a...
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The current API documentation (MicroStation CONNECT Update4) makes it hard to find things. In particular, topic overview descriptions that introduce a part of the API do not make themselves known....
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RE: [CONNECT APIs] Documentation Improvement Requested
While the search options available for CHM help are useful, they provide at best a work-around for poorly-organised documentation. Spurious Search ResultsBetter organisation would remove spurious...
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