topic Story Level marker Setting in Libraries & objects

Story Level marker Setting

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:20:09 GMT

Hi ...
I couldn't find any way to change my story level marker head ! when I want to use Load other story marker .. what should I prepare ?!
it doesn;t accept .gsm or .lcf !!

thank you
hamed kassaei

Re: Story Level marker Setting

David Maudlin — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 12:55:30 GMT

hamedkassaei:

The object must be of the Story Marker Subtype.

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David

Re: Story Level marker Setting

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:29:17 GMT

yes it is a story marker subtype ... when you want to load other story marker ..the windows browser doesn't make it clear what kind of file it will accept ?!! Just " Story marker " written in front of file type
The question is how can I make this story marker ( I know how to make 2d object ) which can be load on the story marker setting .
Or where can i find the object to download !!!

thanks

Re: Story Level marker Setting

rocorona — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:15:43 GMT

Like other peculiar GDL elements (let's say CurtainWall joints), ArchiCAD only has one of them, but it can be substituted, if one knows how.
I've never done it, but if you create a new object choose the Subtype Drawing Symbol>Marker>Story Marker, as suggested by David, and save it in the current library, I'm pretty sure you can load it in the Section Settings window.
One problem is you can't look to any example on how it sould be written, as I think the "basic" marker is embedded it ArchiCAD itself, and you can't open it without knowing the exact name (I think it can't be found browsing an lcf-extracted library).

Re: Story Level marker Setting

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:43:56 GMT

I did it !!! every thing was okey ... I made a new 2d object ... changed its type to Story marker Type ...It appears it Story marker option but ... when I choose it , I will display nothing in Section ..although I saw what i made in preview !!!
what is wrong with it ?!

thank you

Re: Story Level marker Setting

David Maudlin — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:31:11 GMT

rocorona wrote:
One problem is you can't look to any example on how it sould be written, as I think the "basic" marker is embedded it ArchiCAD itself, and you can't open it without knowing the exact name (I think it can't be found browsing an lcf-extracted library).

The built-in marker can be opened by using the Open Object by Subtype... command and going to Drawing Symbol > Marker > Story Marker > Built-in Story Marker.

hamedkassaei wrote:
I did it !!! every thing was okey ... I made a new 2d object ... changed its type to Story marker Type ...It appears it Story marker option but ... when I choose it , I will display nothing in Section ..although I saw what i made in preview !!!
what is wrong with it ?!

Is the object scripted (using the 2D Script window) or drawn (using the 2D Symbol window)? I think it must be scripted.

David

Re: Story Level marker Setting

rocorona — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:16:09 GMT

David wrote:
The built-in marker can be opened by using the Open Object by Subtype... command

Thanks! I did forget about this command, that was missing in my Work Environment.

And yes, it appears that the marker must be scripted in GDL.

Re: Story Level marker Setting

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 08:55:43 GMT

Thank you both
let my try on learning how to script ...