topic Re: PLANE_ status for curve in GDL

PLANE_ status for curve

A_ Smith — Fri, 27 May 2022 10:42:20 GMT

how to make arc segment for PLANE_ ?
It doesn't work - I see nothing in 3D window. What I did wrong?
I thought that at least, status codes 1000 and 3000 should work...

si=15
put 0, 0, 0, si
put 0, 0, 2, si
put 1, 0, 2, si+900
put 2, 0, 2, si+3000
put 2, 0, 0, si
put 0, 0, 0, -1
plane_ nsp/4, get(nsp)

Re: PLANE_ status for curve

Barry Kelly — Fri, 27 May 2022 12:00:11 GMT

The mask for a POLY_ or PLANE can only be 0 (no edge), 1 (visible edge), or -1 (to define a hole).

So 'si' can not be 15, it should be 1.

Does it work then?

I have just shut down Archicad and don't want to start it up again, otherwise I would test it for you.

Barry.

Re: PLANE_ status for curve

A_ Smith — Fri, 27 May 2022 12:16:41 GMT

Well, such masks work. GDL manual also mentions possibility to use Additional status codes... Should be removed i guess ?

Though I needed curved edges and curved holes... In that case prism_ with zero height should do the job

Re: PLANE_ status for curve

runxel — Fri, 27 May 2022 14:20:38 GMT

The GDL manual is wrong about this since Archicad 8 🤣. Seems like they never bothered to fix it.

However what you want works nice with POLY_. There you can have additional status parameters allowing for curved edges and holes.

I would always avoid zero height objects. It mostly kinda works... but in most cases it still raises warnings in the log.