topic Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories in Libraries & objects

Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 12:54:47 GMT

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to make a GDL object that goes through multiple stories and I'd like to make the 2d projection appear only on the relevant stories based on the objet's size.

I've been unable to do this as of now.

Could somebody point me in the right direction to achieve this?
I've attached an example GSM file to illustrate what I'm trying to achieve.

Thanks!

Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

Christophe Fortineau — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 13:18:25 GMT

Hello Johan Cosandey,

I do not know if I have all understood but you can find my first answer just below :
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1MtaGOsXsNUPtGL_-ypJl5GGboYEBeXKE

Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 12:32:07 GMT

Hi Christophe,

Thanks for your answer, sadly it does not solve my problem.

What I am trying to do is the following :
Setting the object on "Show on relevant stories" (montrer sur tous les étages appropriés) and having the 2D symbol show on relevant stories depending on the height of the object, but not on every stories.

I already have a workaround which consists on setting the object to "Show on all stories" and not drawing anything on certain stories but this technique is not perfect because even though nothing is drawn on theses stories, you can still select (and move or delete) the object, which is dangerous.

Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

runxel — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 17:36:45 GMT

Does a projection via project2{4} suffice for your needs or do you actually want to do custom 2d stuff?

Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

Anonymous — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 07:36:15 GMT

I'd like to to custom 2d stuff 🙂

Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

runxel — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:34:39 GMT

Johan wrote:
I'd like to to custom 2d stuff 🙂

Okay, no big difference.

That's what the ac_bottomlevel and ac_toplevel params are for 😉
Set them accordingly.
Then make clever use of REQUEST ("STORY_INFO") and REQUEST("STORY").

Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

Laszlo Nagy — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 12:11:37 GMT

There is an earlier discussion about these with a GRAPHISOFT developer.
Hopefully, most or all of what he is saying in the thread still applies today:

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=34971

Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:50:50 GMT

Thanks a lot!

The answer was lying in the ac_bottomlevel and ac_toplevel parameters.
I defined them in the parameter script and now my object is displaying perfectly on every relevant story.

Johan

Re: Displaying a GDL object on all relevant stories

SenecaDesignLLC — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 14:39:22 GMT

The elevator object is a great place to find the code for stories