topic Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL in GDL

Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Mathias Jonathan — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 07:35:42 GMT

Hello everyone!
I'm working on a mark for a door that behaves differently if the door is inside or outside.

I've seen that you can display the parameter interior/exterior in a label, but when opening the GDL of the label, the corresponding macro is too complicated for me as it displays all the properties, so I can't get this one piece of information.

How can I retrieve the interior/exterior information simply in GDL?

Thanks a lot!

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Barry Kelly — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 07:48:46 GMT

There really is no interior/exterior.

It is all a bit of a trick, so long as you place your windows and doors consistently with the reveal on the 'outside' of the wall, and then the second click to place the door/window selects the swing/opening direction - you click either out side (the same as the reveal side - WIDO_REVEAL_SIDE value will = 0), or the inside (opposite side to the reveal side - WIDO_REVEAL_SIDE value will = 1)

Then it is a case of checking the value of the Global parameter ... WIDO_REVEAL_SIDE in your script.

Barry.

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Mathias Jonathan — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 07:55:37 GMT

Thanks Barry,

I wasn't talking about the interior/exterior face of the door, but the parameter that you manually check and that is exported in IFC (Position Category for Ifc).

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Barry Kelly — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 08:47:23 GMT

@Mathias Jonathan wrote:

I wasn't talking about the interior/exterior face of the door, but the parameter that you manually check and that is exported in IFC (Position Category for Ifc).

Ah, you mean this setting.

It is not an actual object parameter.

I think you have to get that with a REQUEST in GDL.

What label is it you were using?

I might be able to help track it down for you.

Barry.

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Mathias Jonathan — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 09:38:23 GMT

Yes, it's this one!

I found the info in the label " Classification and Property Label"

But when I open the object, it refers to the macro:

call "PropertyParamRequest_m"

Which is a macro that calls alls parameters, so it is difficult for me to find this specific info.

Thanks!

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Barry Kelly — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:30:31 GMT

It is a REQUEST.

The position is a Core Property.

I found out is is a Core Property called ... Main.Position

You can use this REQUEST to get is value ...

n = REQUEST ("Property_Value_Of_Parent", "Main.Position", type, dim1, dim2, propertyValues) print propertyValues

propertyValues will contain the value you want.

Barry.

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Mathias Jonathan — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 12:48:10 GMT

It works well, thank you!

I want to use this request in order to have different representation of the door marker when the door is inside or outside the building

I have an error message when saving the GDL object, but It works.

Here is what i wrote:

In Master Script:

n = REQUEST ("Property_Value_Of_Parent", "Main.Position", type, dim1, dim2, propertyValues)

In Master Script:

IF propertyValues= "Extérieur" THEN TEXT2 0,0,"It works" ENDIF

How can I avoid this error message?

Thanks

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Lingwisyer — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 01:05:06 GMT

Did you forget to attach the error message?

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Mathias Jonathan — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:17:15 GMT

It says " The 2D script has errors. In the project, the library part will be shown with its 2D symbol"

Re: Position (exterior/interior) in GDL

Yves — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 09:20:28 GMT

Hi Mathias,

To avoid the error message you can do this
Part of script taken from this example on GDL Center

https://gdl.graphisoft.com/tips-and-tricks/display-properties-with-labels
I removed the gosub which is not needed with a string

_valueToConvert = "" _valueString = "Value: " dim _propertyValues[][] _dim1 = 0 _dim2 = 0 _stringPropValue = "" n = REQUEST ("Property_Value_Of_Parent", "Main.Position" , _type, _dim1, _dim2, _propertyValues) if n then ! change zeros to ones - it is easier to handle all possible arrays in a double loop if _dim1 = 0 then _dim1 = 1 if _dim2 = 0 then _dim2 = 1 for i = 1 to _dim1 for j = 1 to _dim2 if (i + j) > 2 then _valueString = _valueString + "; " if _type = 4 then ! Type is string - no conversion needed _stringPropValue = _propertyValues[j][i] else ! bool, real, integer types - conversion needed to string _valueToConvert = _propertyValues[j][i] !!! gosub "convertToString" endif _valueString = _stringPropValue next j next i endif if _stringPropValue = "Extérieur" THEN TEXT2 0,0,"It works" endif