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Orient

Orient a geometry from one frame to another

Written by Holly Conrad Smith

Use this to move a geometry from one reference frame to another — for example, taking geometry authored relative to one building's corner and re-orienting it to line up with a different building or grid elsewhere on your site.

Category: Geometric Operations

Kind: Operation

Description: orient a geometry from one frame to another

Inputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

feature

F

Cartesian

Item

the geometry to orient

from

Fr

Frame

Item

the frame to orient from

to

To

Frame

Item

the frame to orient to

Outputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

feature

F

Cartesian

Item

the oriented geometry

How to

  1. Add the Orient node.

  2. Feed in the geometry to move as "feature" — often from Read Feature.

  3. Set "from" and "to" — both Frames, which typically come from a Frame on Polyline node placed at a reference point on each geometry.

  4. The output is the same geometry, repositioned and re-rotated to match the new frame.

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