Hi, i am trying to locate where i can see the coordinates for each point in houdini. i cant really find it and have been looking for a while.

Read somewhere i need to turn something on in the pop up menu. Can someone be more specific.

all help is appreciated thanks

right-click on any SOP, then choose Spreadsheet

or let any of the panes be Details View, then it will allways show you attributes of selected SOP

I am very new to this can you please clarify SOP?

Any of the panes? where do i turn on detail view?

SOPs: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini10.0/nodes/sop/ [sidefx.com]
Panes: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini10.0/basics/panes [sidefx.com]
Details View: http://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini10.0/ref/panes/geosheet [sidefx.com]

melander
I am very new to this can you please clarify SOP?

Any of the panes? where do i turn on detail view?

There's a menu option at the top called ‘help’ and the first entry is ‘start here’. Highly recommended.

Or hit d in viewport, then check Guides&Markers/Points/XYZ coordinates

thanks for replying to what probably is the stupidest question in the world we got it no .

Hi.
When I move points with handles it's fine but if I try to enter specific values in spreadsheet the edit node goes in to soft lock state.What's the reason for this and can it be changed ?
Thanks…

You should treat the spreadsheet as “read-only”. The soft-lock is a legacy thing. You should modify points with the edit sop. If I remember the soft-lock is from before the edit sop. I don't really think anyone actually professionally uses soft-lock - although I think you can even do point based animations with it.

There was a funny post by Symek on odforce or sidefx on softlocks a while back.

But how can I enter specific :roll: coordinates for point in world space with the edit sop?

Albin
Hi.
When I move points with handles it's fine but if I try to enter specific values in spreadsheet the edit node goes in to soft lock state.What's the reason for this and can it be changed ?
Thanks…

That is because you've interrupted the flow-through nature of SOPs by hand-editing specific values. Thus that particular SOP is now holding precious data, which is what locked data is – it's modified in a non-procedural manner. Personally, for the rare cases where I do edit data with the spreadsheet, I usually write it out as a .bgeo and read it back in – that way I don't have to keep the data in the .hip file.

melander
Hi, i am trying to locate where i can see the coordinates for each point in houdini. i cant really find it and have been looking for a while.

You can use the Point SOP with your specific point number in the Group parameter, and your position in the Position parameter.

Is there a way where i can copy these values and put them in ms excel?

i admit that editing through spreadsheet on Edit SOP should be logical and it should do it without locking
also there can be some Button on Edit SOP like Edit Spreadsheet or something
there can be also input for Position (world/local/…) not only for offset
you can post RFE if you wish this features

but for now the best way i can think of is
editing the spreadsheet resulting in softlock
then creating new Edit SOP based on difference between soft-locked node and its input
this Edit SOP can be created by hscript command “sopcreateedit”

then you'll end up with unlocked Edit SOP with your changes

Exporting channels from GeometryCHOP + TableImportSOP are currently the combo for editing data manually .

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