topic Re: CW panel coords relative to project/survey origin in GDL

CW panel coords relative to project/survey origin

Piotr Dobrowolski — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:07:13 GMT

Hi,

It seems bug...or awkward feature:

The CW panel cannot report it's position relative to project 0,0,0...(SYMB_POS_X, SYMB_POS_Y, SYMB_POS_Z always report 0,0,0 in local object coords no matter if in editor or placed)

It does not even report SYMB_POS_FROM_SURVEY_POINT which IMHO should work for any object, but does not.

In object editor it gives 0,0,0 which it should, but while placed it gives:

"Uninitialized dictionary key or invalid use of initialized dictionary key"

It seems this global is not passed to the object?

Maybe I do something wrong? Anyone?

Best Regards,

Piotr

Re: CW panel coords relative to project/survey origin

Peter Baksa — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 07:58:34 GMT

Hi,

The documentation lists which elements these globals are working with.

SYMB_POS_...: Object, Lamp, Door, Window, Wall End, Skylight

SYMB_POS_FROM_SURVEY_POINT: Object

Re: CW panel coords relative to project/survey origin

Piotr Dobrowolski — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:06:26 GMT

It is not that explicitly said...object is everything in GDL :P, and a lot of things in manual referring to "object" works almost for every flavor of "object"...

Anyway: Is there any possibility to check the panel position relative to anything?

Piotr

Re: CW panel coords relative to project/survey origin

kuvbur — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:41:52 GMT

Is outputting the coordinate value to a property okay? I was able to output to a property (with the help of an addon)

Re: CW panel coords relative to project/survey origin

Piotr Dobrowolski — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:46:05 GMT

I have to calculate something live in-object (panel) so properties do not work...

I am trying to avoid making a structure in one object to simplify things like editing and scheduling.

Re: CW panel coords relative to project/survey origin

Peter Baksa — Wed, 03 May 2023 07:27:22 GMT

The documentation of global variables and ac_ parameters refers to objects as the library parts available with the "Object" tool.

Generally tools with multiple components (CW, stair, railing, opening) don't give global positions to GDL.

Re: CW panel coords relative to project/survey origin

Piotr Dobrowolski — Thu, 04 May 2023 03:20:07 GMT

If there were some position possible even to some whatever called a starting point of CW, that would make some new applications of CW possible 🙂