How do I transform cell orientation while edit in placed?

I think this is the right way around, but forgive me if it ends up with the transform back to front - I'm sure  you can fix it if it is. The trick is to use geGetInstHierPath() to find out the hierarchical path down to where you are, and then to concatenate the transformations at each stage. Because I'm not worried about the translation part (i.e. the offset), I don't worry about handling mosaics properly - this is just to collect the orientation.

Anyway, something like this should do it:

procedure(CCSgetCurrentOrient(@optional (win hiGetCurrentWindow()))
  let((hierPath transform)
    hierPath=geGetInstHierPath(win)
    transform=list(0:0 "R0" 1)
    foreach(instInfo hierPath
      transform=dbConcatTransform(transform car(instInfo)~>transform)
    )
    cadr(transform)
  )
)

Regards,

Andrew.

Thanks Andrew,

This is exactly what I needed.

Vaugh 

This information is also readily available off the window id:

hiGetCurrentWindow()~>e2dTransOrient

You can also get the current edit-in-place cell x and y offset relative to the top level. Getting it from the window id will require that you divide by the geGetEditCellView()~>DBUPerUU (database units, usually 1000.0):
hiGetCurrentWindow()~>e2dTransX
hiGetCurrentWindow()~>e2dTransY

OR
geEditToWindowPoint(hiGetCurrentWindow() 0:0)

Thus, the transform of the current edit-in-place cell is:
layWin=hiGetCurrentWindow()
curTransform=list(geEditToWindowPoint(layWin 0:0) layWin~>e2dTransOrient 1.0)

Derek