LIBRARYGLOBAL ("object_name - text not a variable", parameter, value)

gaba — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:49:22 GMT

Maybe it'll be useful to someone 😎
I have a ton of MVO scripts and spent the last two days trying to solve a problem where ArchiCAD 29 wouldn't refresh the 2/3D model after changing settings in MVO. After every change in settings in MVO, I had to manually force a rebuild of the 2/3D model.

1. Until ArchiCAD 27, the following code worked flawlessly for me:

object_name="myobject_mvo.gsm" LIBRARYGLOBAL(object_name, parameter, value)

Although the GDL manual warns that this doesn't refresh the 2/3D model, it did!

2. In ArchiCAD 29, the above code no longer works, and indeed, you shouldn't use object_name as a variable, but as a literal macro name:

LIBRARYGLOBAL("myobject_mvo", parameter, value)

Phew, luckily the solution turned out to be so simple.

Operating system used: Windows

topic LIBRARYGLOBAL ("object_name - text not a variable", parameter, value) in GDL

LIBRARYGLOBAL ("object_name - text not a variable", parameter, value)