Moving Proxy via Rhinoscript

[NDRSN]

Is there a method to move a proxy object from it's base insertion point to a specific location using rhinoscript. It would make it much easier to correctly place multiple plants to an undulating ground surface. Thank you.

[konstantin_chaos]

Hi NDRSN,

You can treat the V-Ray Proxy Meshes as regular transformable objects when scripting.
Additionally, you can load proxies in Grasshopper and position them using a grasshopper definition.

Konstantin

[NDRSN]

thanks for the response; however, I wanted to move proxy objects to align their insertion point onto a landscape - if I transform them as a mesh object, sometimes the proxy is missing parts of the mesh and it will not lift the proxy to the correct height.

[nikolay.bakalov]

Hi

The proxy geometry is just a regular Rhino mesh or curve. There is nothing special about it. As with all other Rhino meshes and curves there is no "insertion point", since there is no local coordinate system in Rhino.
To achieve what you want you should make a block out of the proxy. Doing so you specify a real insertion point (block instances in Rhino do have local coordinate system, contrary to Rhino itself), and the use the means of rhinoscript to manipulate the object.