Mark Flamer Posted August 19, 2015 Share Posted August 19, 2015 (edited) The attached file demonstrates the use of Marionette to access the internet and import an image from Google Maps. The map location and orientation are based on the setings in the Heliodon object. Edited August 20, 2015 by Mark Flamer P.E. Quote Link to comment
_c_ Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 Thank you Mark, wonderful example! Quote Link to comment
John Meunier Posted September 17, 2015 Share Posted September 17, 2015 What a great invention. Thank-you Mark. I can see expanding this tool to bring the map into VWs at scale, and increasing the the size of the map via getting multiple snapshots 'and stitching' to complete a larger area with a lat/long offset. Quote Link to comment
Mark Flamer Posted September 17, 2015 Author Share Posted September 17, 2015 Glad you both like it. We had a great intern here over the summer who contributed alot to Marionette. His final project was a network that leveraged some external Python libraries to download realtime weather data from the internet, create a Voronoi diagram from the data points and plot the result on a map of the earth. Here is a picture, I'll pull the .vwx files together soon and post them. Quote Link to comment
efa Posted November 29, 2015 Share Posted November 29, 2015 Hi Mark, where have you put the .vmx file? Thank you Mark Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee Neil Barman Posted February 22, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted February 22, 2016 Sarah just demo'd the Google Maps network during Marionette Monday #4... Amazing. Mark, have you posted the Vectorworks files for the weather map somewhere else in the forum? Thanks, -Neil Quote Link to comment
Patrick Winkler Posted November 16, 2016 Share Posted November 16, 2016 A user asked for this file: ImageFromURL.vwx Quote Link to comment
yasin2ray Posted June 24, 2024 Share Posted June 24, 2024 @Mark Flamer @Patrick Winkler Does anyone have basic instructions for how to use the marionette in this file to get an image from a different URL (a different location)? I'm looking at what's in the file "ImageFromURL.vwx" and trying to play with it to understand how to use it. I have a URL for a different location. I don't see where put the URL in the Marionette set to get the new bitmap output. The file is great, but it needs instructions to make it useful. THANKS! Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted June 24, 2024 Share Posted June 24, 2024 The object is relatively complicated because it is using the data from a heliodon object to find the aerial photo and import and geolocate it. If all you want is to bring in an image, you need a much simpler Marionette. Give the String tile a name and it will show up in the OIP. I named it URL for Image. Right click on one of the nodes and Wrap the network. Select the Wrapped Network and make an Object Node out of it. Now you will have an image in the file linked to a URL. But it does not error checking. If you enter a non-existent url (or one that does not have an image type file attached), it will let you enter the URL, but the object will basically disappear. Undo should bring it back so you can try again. HTH 1 Quote Link to comment
yasin2ray Posted July 2, 2024 Share Posted July 2, 2024 On 6/24/2024 at 4:44 PM, Pat Stanford said: The object is relatively complicated because it is using the data from a heliodon object to find the aerial photo and import and geolocate it. If all you want is to bring in an image, you need a much simpler Marionette. Give the String tile a name and it will show up in the OIP. I named it URL for Image. Right click on one of the nodes and Wrap the network. Select the Wrapped Network and make an Object Node out of it. Now you will have an image in the file linked to a URL. But it does not error checking. If you enter a non-existent url (or one that does not have an image type file attached), it will let you enter the URL, but the object will basically disappear. Undo should bring it back so you can try again. HTH @Pat Stanford, but will the image be georeferenced? I want to add an aerial image/orthophoto from Google to my georeferenced document. I need it to land in the correct location in my vwx file. Anna Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted July 4, 2024 Share Posted July 4, 2024 I don't know. It appears that VW will import a georeferenced file as georeferenced if the file you are importing into is georeferenced. I can't find any commands to specifically geo reference images. Do a manual import and get all the settings correct to have the image georeferenced. Then you "should" be able to use the marionette to bing in other georeferenced images as georeferenced also. And please let us know if it works. Or send me a georeferenced image file along with the Document Georeferencing information and I will try it. 1 Quote Link to comment
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