topic Dimensioning 2D Symbol Anchors in Libraries & objects

Dimensioning 2D Symbol Anchors

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:48:14 GMT

Hi all,
I'm having the following problem at the moment:
I'm drawing 2D Symbols in the Object-Editor and overwrite the standard anchorpoints with custom ones via GDL code:

hotspot2 0,0,0
hotspot2 -1,1,1
hotspot2 1,1,2
fragment2 all, 0

Now I insert some instances into the document and draw dimensions from anchorpoint to anchorpoint. When I reopen the object in the editor, I can change the coordinates of the anchorpoints and all instances in the document update correctly. The dimensions however don't change their referencepoints to the updated anchorpoint-positions.

Is it somehow possible to make the dimensions in the document update correctly?

Thanks for any advices!

Re: Dimensioning 2D Symbol Anchors

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:18:03 GMT

Hello,

Why are you coding the hotspots?

Just add the hotspots to the 2D symbol (by drawing)
and leave the 2D program empty.

Hope this works.

Re: Dimensioning 2D Symbol Anchors

rocorona — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:41:08 GMT

Use parameters, instead of fixed values, for the HS coordinates.
This way you can change their values without re-saving the library part.

Re: Dimensioning 2D Symbol Anchors

Anonymous — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:28:22 GMT

Hi,

@Juha: I coded the hotspots, so that I can control their indexes. When I draw them directly in the 2D symbol window and I change them later, the indexes might get mixed up.

Anyway, it seems the problem was, that ArchiCAD didn't refresh the dimensions right away. Closing und reopening the document or cutting and pasting the dimensions refreshes them correctly, even though this seems like a rather strange workaround.

Thanks for your answers.