topic How to make 2D display of Door with Cross in Libraries & objects

How to make 2D display of Door with Cross

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 08:50:45 GMT

I tried to use the empty door as the opening for Pipes. The 2D display are wished to be Contour with Cross.(Fig. 01) Is it possible to add some 2D scripts for realize my purpose?

My first idea is to add the following scripts:

line2 -a/2,0,a/2, Wall_Thickness
line2 -a/2,Wall_Thickness,a/2,0

However it is apparent the parameter "wall_thickness" does not exist !

Any help?

Re: How to make 2D display of Door with Cross

David Maudlin — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:31:07 GMT

Kent:

This should work, and showed a cross when I pasted your code at the top of the 2D Script for the "Simple Door Opening" library part. Where in the script is the code added? Best would be to zip the library part and post it here so others can look at the entire library part.

David

Re: How to make 2D display of Door with Cross

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 14:11:48 GMT

WALL_THICKNESS is a GDL Global variable so it should be storing the thickness of the Wall the Window/Door is placed into.

Are you saying that the cross does not adjust to the Wall thickness of the Wall?
Can you attach a screenshot of the incorrect result?

Re: How to make 2D display of Door with Cross

Anonymous — Wed, 16 Apr 2014 17:57:28 GMT

laszlonagy wrote:
WALL_THICKNESS is a GDL Global variable so it should be storing the thickness of the Wall the Window/Door is placed into.

Are you saying that the cross does not adjust to the Wall thickness of the Wall?
Can you attach a screenshot of the incorrect result?

After modify the parameter "WALL_THICKNESS" as capital word instead of "Wall_Thickness", the scripts could work.

line2 -a/2,0,a/2,WALL_THICKNESS
line2 -a/2,WALL_THICKNESS,a/2,0

By the way, how to match the Cross Line's Style with the Contour's Line's Style. Thank you!

Re: How to make 2D display of Door with Cross

David Maudlin — Thu, 17 Apr 2014 13:06:59 GMT

Kent wrote:
By the way, how to match the Cross Line's Style with the Contour's Line's Style. Thank you!

You need to set the line type before the lines command:

SET LINE_TYPE gs_wcont_line_in

SET LINE_TYPE gs_wcont_line_out

depending on whether you want to use the Inside or Outside line type.

To use the pen setting:

PEN gs_wcont_line_pen

Notice in the GDL main library window interface the Type column, which shows you the type of variable being used (line type, pen, etc).

Kent wrote:
[After modify the parameter "WALL_THICKNESS" as capital word instead of "Wall_Thickness", the scripts could work.

line2 -a/2,0,a/2,WALL_THICKNESS
line2 -a/2,WALL_THICKNESS,a/2,0

The upper or lower case makes no difference, even WaLl_ThIcKnEsS works, there must some other issue, sometimes invisible characters can be copied into the GDL script, creating unreadable lines.

David