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[Christof Metzger-Kraus <christof.j.kraus AT gmail.com>]

Hi Simon,

elements using X, Y, Z, THETA, PHI or ORIGIN and ORIENTATION are placed in lab coordinates and not relative to the origin and orientation of the beamline. I think this behavior can be changed quite easily. Maybe I manage to implement this in the next few days in order to get this into the next release.

Christof

On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 11:15 AM Simon Friederich <sifriede AT uni-mainz.de> wrote:

Dear OPAL-Team,

I'd like to use the LINES together with ORIGIN, because it is a really handy way of dealing with the positions of multiple objects, e.g.:

rf1: RFCAVITY, ELEMEDGE=0,...;
rf2: RFCAVITY, ELEMEDGE=0.5,...;
rfline1: LINE =(rf1, rf2), ORIGIN={0,0,1};

Which works perfectly fine, I have rf1 @ Z=1m and rf2 @ 1.5m in the global coordinate system.

Now I have to rotate rf2 by 180° around the y-axis, so I need to use Z instead of ELEMEDGE in order to access THETA. But how can I now use "ORIGIN" as it does only work for the ELEMEDGE-case, right?

rf1: RFCAVITY, Z=0,...;
rf2: RFCAVITY, Z=0.5, THETA=PI, ...;
rfline1: LINE =(rf1, rf2), Z=1; // Here is the "problematic" part, ORIGIN={0,0,1} has no effect

I thought of using ORIENTATION, but I did not quite get the correct syntax for the rotation that I want.

Thank you very much in advance.
Best regards
Simon

P.S.: I think there is a typo in the manual

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