topic Re: SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin in GDL

SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin

Miko — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:13:07 GMT

In a label this SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES parameter "breaks" when listing the 8 or 9th skin (and further skins). Works as expected in 7 or fewer. Tried it with a very dumbed down version of my label, simple rows with: text2 0, "manuallychangedposition",SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES [manually changed id][1]. If a slab had 4 skins and I wanted to print the 7th skin, it printed nothing, which is correct, no 7th skin, but if i wanted to print the 9th skin the label started to look like a dot - missing object, even if i added lower skins for the function to read, once i added the 9th skin, it always showed only a dot. Unless the slab had acces to the 9th skin, in which case it broke on the 10th skin.

Re: SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin

Lingwisyer — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:38:32 GMT

What does the Report say? Should return an error message related to the failed object generation. Though, why are you trying to query non-existant skins? If you need to have user input, you could link the parameter back to the skin count, with a Request into a Range.

If you make a composite with more than 10 skins, then query the 10th, does it work? If that does work, my guess is that the array that contains the skin list dynamically changes based on the number of skins, but has a minimum size. If it does not, than I guess this would be a bug to report.

Ling.

Re: SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin

Miko — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:43:06 GMT

Where can i find that Report

Edit:

I was trying to query nonexistant skins to troubleshoot the problem, everything works even with nonexistant skins, but when querying for the 9th or futher skins it stops working

Re: SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin

Lingwisyer — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:44:38 GMT

File => Info => Session Report

It should automatically pop up on your tab bar when an error occurs though... Or at least the Action Center will...

Re: SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin

Miko — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:49:59 GMT

Ecodesign Star failed and Polygon is degenerated, nothing else.

This is when its working

And this is when i try to list from a slab that has 8 or 9 + skins

Re: SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin

Lingwisyer — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 01:12:37 GMT

So when the label fails to generate, it does not return an error message? Odd...

Re: SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin

Barry Kelly — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 01:47:10 GMT

You can inquire the number of wall skins with ... WALL_SKINS_NUMBER

If that helps.

Barry.

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runxel — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 21:55:57 GMT

For whatever reason the SLAB_SKINS_NUMBER is capped at 8... this makes me believe that also all the other skin reading parameters do not go beyond that either.

Why Walls can have 127 skins but Slabs can't? Well, err..... 👀 GS? Please tell us. Or do something about it 😄

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runxel — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:51:30 GMT

Ohhhh, I got it now. 😳

All of this got superseded by requesting "Component_IDs_Of_Parent" and then "Component_Property_Values_Of_Parent"!

Man, it was not easy to figure that one out. 😐

Re: SLAB_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES not working correctly when printing 9th < skin

Barry Kelly — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 00:51:42 GMT

Sorry.

Where did I get WALL_SKINS from when you are talking about slabs. 😞

Barry.

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Lingwisyer — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 01:21:05 GMT

Superseded, though neither of the those requests work outside of labels...

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runxel — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 10:06:43 GMT

Well to be fair, neither of the "old" Globals did either... 🤔

But yeah, it would be cool to just request all the data in the project from GDL without limitations.

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Lingwisyer — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 01:03:07 GMT

Really? I was sure I had used WALL_SKINS_NUMBER in 3D...