Is there a way to access an object geometry vertices using the getproperty function from javascript. tried the following it does not work
var pos = vmp.GetProperty("MTSGeometry.bx.MSTGeometry", "Vertices");

alert(pos);

hope somebody can help

ps. can we set the vertice value?

Try this way:

var pos = vmp.GetProperty("MTSGeometry.myGeometryName", "Vertices[0]", "mts_pnt3d");

That will get the x,y,z values of the vertex at index 0. (you can also have the whole array returned to you by not specifying an index number). To set a vertex value:

vmp.SetProperty("MTSGeometry.myGeometryName", "Vertices[0]", "pos", "mts_pnt3d");

For more info on the Vertices array, refer to the XML database and search for "vertices".

Here's another post on the topic that might help. I would also recommend doing a search in the Forums for keyword "vertices".

Regards

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Admin,

Admin,
you say that you can access the whole array of Vertices by not specifying the index number, but how do you do it?

I tried:

var pos = vmp.GetProperty("MTSGeometry.myGeometryName", "Vertices[]", "mts_pnt3d");

but it doesn't work. what should the type be? "mts_array" or something like that.

I also tried the following from the mtx file

MTSInstance.objectName.MTSGeometry.Vertices
MTSInstance.objectName.MTSGeometry::Vertices
MTSGeometry.geometryName.vertices
MTSGeometry.geometryName::vertices

Nothing works. I can only get the individual vertex with Vertices[x].

Please help

The only thing you’ll ever get from get property from the html is a string… you’ll have to convert it to the type of object you need. So if you ask for a pnt3d, you’re going to get a string like “x y z”, and you’ll have to do pos.split(“ “) to get the values.

Quite honestly I don’t know if you can get all the verticies at once from the html using getproperty, there may not be a type that would accommodate it, maybe mts_str?

From the mtx and via VETScript you should be able to get the entire vertices array of an object using dot syntax:

verts = MTSGeometry.geometryname.Vertices;

Vertices is an array of objects of type Point3D, so the assignment creates a reference to the array, and you would access the points properties like so:

verts[i].x

verts[i].y

verts[i].z