topic Re: Door/Window Arrow in Libraries & objects

Door/Window Arrow

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 10:33:07 GMT

How do you change the door and window arrow for the standard archicad doors and windows to a simple arrow or something similar to what cadimage doors and windows offer? Understand you need to adjust the object, but which object?

Cheers

Re: Door/Window Arrow

Barry Kelly — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 02:40:07 GMT

You will be in for a world of hurt if you are trying to modify the GDL scripts of the standard Archicad doors and windows.
They have macro calls inside macro calls inside more macro calls so just finding the bit you need can be a challenge.

Then if you do make a change and it is in a macro and you save it with the same name it will affect all other objects it is used in (which can actually be a good thing).
But if you ever update the library your modified macro will be overwritten and you will be back to square one.

If you save it with a different name then you will have to modify every object that calls it to call the new name otherwise it won't work.
Again giving each object a new name so they don't get overwritten in any library updates.

If you don't have the option of modifying it within the parameters of the object (I don't know as I don't use the standard doors and windows) and unless you are pretty good at GDL scripting then I would probably just accept what you have or find an alternative source such as Cadimage.

Barry.

Re: Door/Window Arrow

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:32:57 GMT

Found what I was after cheers mate... changing the OpeningLines macro. Understand it is something you would have to do with each issue, but it is a once off with each new edition of Archicad.

Re: Door/Window Arrow

Eduardo Rolon — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:20:43 GMT

You will need to do it every time that the Library is updated which usually is about twice during each major release.