I'm trying to set up a flexible building plan for a table I plan to build as a Houdini training. However, I have reached a point where I am stuck. I have constructed a table out of individual pieces. In the end I want to have an exploded view of all pieces with a font for each piece, showing the X, Y and Z scale of each piece at it's position. I've looked into ForEach loops and other things, but I just can't find a good tutorial on how to accomplish this. The file is attached, any help is greatly appreciated.

A copy SOP can do this. Just google “houdini font copy stamp” or check my hip file.

Konstantin Magnus
A copy SOP can do this. Just google “houdini font copy stamp” or check my hip file.

Thanks a lot! I found a way to do it with a forEach loop - which may be complicated but I certainly learned a lot about forEach loops this way. Looking at your file leaves me a bit confused as I'm not yet really ready to understand VEX - I mostly work with simple expressions still. Still, really interesting to see how simple an experienced setup can be, compared to the unnecessary complicated stuff I am currently producing :-)

Yeah, sometimes its really depressing to see a node setup that looks like a full plate of spaghetti and someone else is just dropping two lines of code.

Once you get interested in VEX, I recommend to look at:
http://www.tokeru.com/cgwiki/?title=HoudiniVex [tokeru.com]
https://vimeo.com/entagma [vimeo.com]
http://forums.odforce.net/topic/24056-learning-vex-via-animated-gifs-bees-bombs/ [forums.odforce.net]