hi Kyle, you are on the right track, but if I remember correctly there are utility classes in lcsim which should take care of decoding that string, and converting the cellId into a position, you should not need to do that yourself. Maybe Norman remembers how that works exactly? Tony On 05/07/2014 10:17 AM, Kyle Travis wrote: > I've figured out how to get the LCMetaData from the eventheader, and I > see where one of the Maps has a string in it that looks like this: > > > system:0:6,barrel:6:3,module:9:4,layer:13:6,slice:19:5,x:32:-16,y:48:-16 > > Under the name "CellIDEncoding". Am I on the right track? > > > Kyle > > > On 2014/05/07 10:04, Kyle Travis wrote: >> Hi Norman, >> >> I'm able to open and interact with the simulation data you sent us, >> but I'm not sure how exactly to get at some of the geometry >> information. It could be that I just haven't found what I'm looking >> for in the lcsim documentation yet. >> >> I have the hits in the file as a list of MCParticles, which contain >> positional information, but I haven't been able to feed that through >> the geometry description to get pixel/layer information yet. I can >> think of ways to do this (particularly for the pixel, which we have >> methods for finding already of course) but I assumed this information >> was already in the file, and I wanted to find out what the optimum >> method was first. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Kyle >> >> >> >> On 2014/04/30 13:24, Graf, Norman A. wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> Please take a look at the following file to get started: >>> >>> http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~ngraf/kpixEcalTestBeam/outfile.slcio [1] >>> >>> >>> Please let me know right away if you encounter any difficulties >>> with this file. I downloaded it and was able to open it in Wired. >>> You will need to have a recent lcsim installation to get the correct >>> detector description. >>> This has ~1000 single 12.1 GeV electrons. >>> Norman >>> >>> ------------------------- >>> FROM: [log in to unmask] >>> [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dylan Mead >>> [[log in to unmask]] >>> SENT: Wednesday, April 30, 2014 11:48 AM >>> TO: kpix-beamtest-software >>> SUBJECT: [KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE] sim data >>> >>> Can anybody point me to the location of the sim data? If anybody knows >>> the machine and path we could log into your system and snatch it up. >>> >>> We want to do some testing of the data converter and I figured we >>> could copy a file over to play with and see if our conversion to a >>> kpix bin file works as expected. >>> >>> cheers, >>> >>> -Dylan >>> >>> ------------------------- >>> >>> Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE list, click the >>> following link: >>> >>> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE&A=1 >>> [2] >>> >>> ------------------------- >>> >>> Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list >>> >>> To unsubscribe from the KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE list, click the >>> following link: >>> >>> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE&A=1 >>> [3] >>> >>> Links: >>> ------ >>> [1] http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~ngraf/kpixEcalTestBeam/outfile.slcio >>> [2] >>> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE&A=1 >>> [3] >>> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE&A=1 >> ######################################################################## >> Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list >> >> To unsubscribe from the KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE list, click the >> following link: >> https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE&A=1 > ######################################################################## > Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list > > To unsubscribe from the KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: > https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE&A=1 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=KPIX-BEAMTEST-SOFTWARE&A=1