Determine Street Edges of Imported Blocks

Question

Hi,

I am working with blocks that were originally imported as static shapes. I have developed some script tools for subdividing the blocks based on some different things that I am trying to account for.

In short I want to figure out if there is a way to determine if the edge of a shape touches the edge of another shape. If it does not (and this can be queried somehow), then the edge must be on a street. Is there a way to do this via python or cga? Alternatively, is there a way to tag all the edges of the blocks as "street" and have that propagate to resulting subdivided shapes?

Also assuming this can be resolved and the street edge(s) identified as attributes, is it possible to orient a building/facade to the street edge?

Thanks in advance for any input!

-Jack de Valpine

LucasSaliba_Santos · Answer

Okay in continue my conversation with myself ;->

I realize that setAttribute should be passed a list of "streetWidth" values something like:

def setStreetWidth(name,edges):
    count = 0
    edgeList = edges*[0]
    while (count < edges):
        attr = "streetWidth"
        edgeList[count] = 1
        count += 1
    ce.setAttribute(name,attr,edgeList)

-Jack

Hello guy,

We found your scrip very helpful , but we're having some trouble with it.

When we tried to run it, the system returns a report error at the line that contains "count = 0"

This first problem we solved by tabulating the line.

But the script is still not working. Althought it showed no more line erros, then we discovered that the tabulating could solve the script erros.

Otherwise, now the script runs, but it doesn't work, I mean after running the script the static shapes didn't get any new attibute "streetWidth".

Could you help's?

thanks in advance...

MatthiasBuehler1 · Answer

hi !

I did not see there was a question in there the first time I glanced over the post .. sry.

this thread may help you too for other issues :
http://forums.esri.com/cityengine/forum-5617.html [last version of scripts at page 2 of the thread.]

Jackde_Valpine · Answer

Okay in continue my conversation with myself ;->

I realize that setAttribute should be passed a list of "streetWidth" values something like:

def setStreetWidth(name,edges):
    count = 0
    edgeList = edges*[0]
    while (count < edges):
        attr = "streetWidth"
        edgeList[count] = 1
        count += 1
    ce.setAttribute(name,attr,edgeList)

-Jack