topic Re: AC14 Equal Angles Beam error in Libraries & objects

AC14 Equal Angles Beam error

fuzzytnth3 — Wed, 24 May 2023 09:51:00 GMT

I am using the above object with mitre ends and at to a slope of -1.008 degrees.

As soon as I introduce the slope angle in the 2d window the Beam becomes half the size and with no mitre cuts at one end but in the 3d window 2 Beams are displayed with a gap inbetween.

If I remove the slope angle the 2d display is correct but the 3d window still displays 2 angles.

Any idea how to fix the GDL or even if AC15's version of the same object displays the same error?

Re: AC14 Equal Angles Beam error

Anonymous — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:49:56 GMT

This hasn't worked since AC10 - http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=142526, but you will be pleased to know it is finally fixed in AC15!

Looking at the code, it was a very simple fix. Go to line 377 in the 3d code (It's quite near the end).

IF  FlangePos=`Top` THEN 
	rotz 180 
	roty 180 
!!	ADDz -a				!!Remove or comment out this line 
	ADDz -(a+dz+dz2)	!!Add this line instead 
	ADDy -ds 
ENDIF

You will have to save this modified object with a new name and leave the one in the AC library still incorrect, unless you want to extract out the whole library, swap out the object, then repackage it again. I'll leave this up to you!

Hope that helps.

Re: AC14 Equal Angles Beam error

fuzzytnth3 — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:24:59 GMT

Cool thanks very much for that I shall give it a go tomorrow off home for ma' tea