topic Re: LABEL: Access Complex Profile Offset Modifier Params (Beam) in GDL

LABEL: Access Complex Profile Offset Modifier Params (Beam)

Aurasphere — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 05:43:29 GMT

Hi All

My first post here 🙂

Im wondering if anyone has been able to do the above...?

I use complex profile beam tool to create a dropped edge beam (Australian Resi Housing) and simply want to report the offset modifier value

Cheers

Re: LABEL: Access Complex Profile Offset Modifier Params (Beam)

Barry Kelly — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 07:29:38 GMT

Simply place some autotext for the profile modifier you want.

Select that text and then 'save as a library part > label'.

It will create a label for you and if you open the script, you will see the code for the text.

It seems it refers to the modifiers by a GUID rather than a name.

Barry.

Re: LABEL: Access Complex Profile Offset Modifier Params (Beam)

Aurasphere — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 07:50:33 GMT

I should have elaborated

I need more than just autotext access. I need to have conditional gdl code that does quite a bit and last time i tried, autotext is not available as a variable ie its an output string only...you cant use in gdl as such...

Thanks for the reply Barry!

Re: LABEL: Access Complex Profile Offset Modifier Params (Beam)

Barry Kelly — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:24:43 GMT

If you just need to show the modifier value, you can just use an autotext label and call up the modifier you want.

Add extra descriptive text and save as a favourite for future use.

Saves you having to create your own label.

But if you are creating your own label and need to use the value from the modifiers, maybe you need to look at some of these requests?

n = REQUEST ("Properties_Of_Parent", propertyType, parentProperties)

n = REQUEST ("Property_Value_Of_Parent", "id", type, dim1, dim2, propertyValues)

n = REQUEST ("Property_Name", "id", typeName, groupName, propertyName)

I have not really looked into these, but maybe one of those (or some other request) will allow you to find the modifier properties?

Whether you can use the values of these modifier properties, I am not sure, or maybe you can still only just output their value.

Barry.

Re: LABEL: Access Complex Profile Offset Modifier Params (Beam)

Aurasphere — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:52:06 GMT

Thanks again

Great tip

Ive used those request statements quite a bit lately but unfortunately does not seem to have any access to the modifiers

Ive been freelancing gdl since version 7...really excited to see python now available but havent had a good look at the schema but this task should be easy and best done as simple label

Cheers