"compas.geometry.Polygon" and "Plotter.draw_polygons"

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When using Polygon from compas.geometry, how should the points be sorted in the input?

I also have problems inputting my polygon points in “Plotter.draw_polygons”, the instructions are not clear. Could you please provide an example?

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hi,

the polygon points should be provided to the constructor in the order as they appear in the polygon. the following is a square in the first quadrant of the coordinate system, formed in counter-clockwise direction.

polygon = Polygon([[0, 0, 0], [1, 0, 0], [1, 1, 0], [0, 1, 0]])

as per the docs, the draw_polygons method takes one positional argument, which is a list of dict. each dict should at least contain the coordinates of the points of the polygon

plotter = Plotter()
plotter.draw_polygons([{'points': polygon.points}])
plotter.show()

however, i had never used the polygons directly with the plotters. when i tried the code above i got the error described in issue #41. this is now solved with the corresponding hotfix…

hope this helps.

best,
tom

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Thanks for the correction. I had the input the same way, but kept getting errors.