topic Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work in Archicad C++ API

Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Anonymous — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:24:36 GMT

Hello

I am trying to change drawing bounds (element.drawing.bounds), but it doesn’t change. I am able to change other things in the drawing but not the bounds..
Thanks in advance.

Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Ralph Wessel — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 08:33:58 GMT

Does changing the scaling ratio work?

Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 12:22:05 GMT

Ralph wrote:
Does changing the scaling ratio work?

Drawingscale and parentoriginalscale are both output only.
Ratio works but changing only the drawing size and not bounds of the drawing - so I have to update / change bounds myself.

Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Ralph Wessel — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:20:03 GMT

What happens when you change the ratio? If the bounding box doesn't change, does that mean the drawing is cropped when it expands or sits far within the bounding box when it contracts?

If so, there is a flag (isCutWithFrame) to indicate the drawing is cropped to the bounds – unsetting that might make the bounds automatically adjust. Alternatively, you might need to specify the bounds by defining the bounding polygon (poly + polygon memo).

Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:32:17 GMT

Ralph wrote:
What happens when you change the ratio? If the bounding box doesn't change, does that mean the drawing is cropped when it expands or sits far within the bounding box when it contracts?

If so, there is a flag (isCutWithFrame) to indicate the drawing is cropped to the bounds – unsetting that might make the bounds automatically adjust. Alternatively, you might need to specify the bounds by defining the bounding polygon (poly + polygon memo).

First question - yes

Changing ratio only works when first setting iscutwithframe as true and then false (doing ACAPI element change twice, first time with iscutwithframe=true and then iscutwithframe=false)

Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 13:33:45 GMT

smithclarkson01 wrote:
Does changing the scaling ratio work?

it doesn't

Yep. Anyone knows how to do that please?

Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 21:52:01 GMT

Does anyone have an idea? My goal is to do the “update” action of layouts/drawings by code, or to change drawing bounds.

Thanks in advance!

Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:53:02 GMT

I was also unable to change element.drawing.bounds. It just didn’t change..

Re: Changing drawing bounds doesn’t work

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 10:09:54 GMT

Tomer1 wrote:
Does anyone have an idea? My goal is to do the “update” action of layouts/drawings by code, or to change drawing bounds.

Thanks in advance!

So I found the ApiDB_CheckDrawingStatuisID. Is there a function that’s actually changing the status (updating the drawing instead of just checking if it’s updated)?