topic Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object in Libraries & objects

X Y co-ordinates of the object

dhaval7shah — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:23:35 GMT

How can I get X-Y co-ordinates of an Object, through its own GDL script?
I also want to take the same data in to Schedules. Can anybody show me some example of such scripts.
(I tried with e.g. x1 = SYMB_POS_X , but i think i dont know how to use this Global parameter?)
Thanks.

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

alemanda — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:49:22 GMT

In you gdl object you should define two parameters and assign to them the value of SYMB_POS_X and SYMB_POS_Y. Then you should add these two parameters as filter in your schedule.
Hope it is useful.

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:11:04 GMT

Hello,

If I remember right, the object's coordinates are always zero in the schedules

Regards, Juha

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

Barry Kelly — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 02:05:19 GMT

Does this post about the GLOB_WORLD_ORIGO_OFFSET help?

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=33878

Barry.

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

dhaval7shah — Wed, 25 May 2011 08:55:27 GMT

!!!!! Master script Part !!!!!
----
If bUpdate then
Xx1 = SYMB_POS_X - Ooffsetx !X co-ord
Yy1 = SYMB_POS_Y - Ooffsety !Y co-ord
Endif

Parameters Xx1 = Xx1
Parameters Yy1 = Yy1

Xx1Last = Xx1
Yy1Last = Yy1

if bUpdate then
Xx1 = Xx1
Yy1 = Yy1
else
Xx1 = Xx1Last
Yy1 = Yy1Last
Endif
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
2D script part :

text2 0.2, (-r1+0.1), "x: "+ PreX + str ("%.2", Xx1*100)
text2 0.2, (-r1-0.05), "y: "+ PreY + str ("%.2", Yy1*100)

Text output comes correct But the taken parameters Xx1 & Yy1 in the schedule, are showing the valuae incorrect (i.e. it considers the value of 'SYMB_POS_X' and 'SYMB_POS_Y' as zero)

can anyone help on this please?

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2011 15:51:46 GMT

Juha wrote:
If I remember right, the object's coordinates are always zero in the schedules

True.
Curiously, they do show correctly in basic component lists.
GDL oddities. Don't know if this can help.

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

dhaval7shah — Thu, 26 May 2011 17:22:25 GMT

yes, in Lists the co-ordinates cam correct, but there is still a limitation, when i duplicate the objects, i need to refresh one of its parameter to get the Xx1 & yy1 refreshed into the list. Otherwise they show duplicate co-ordinates.

Also somehow i could manage to show this X_Y co-ord values into schedules, but then the text out put is having the problem.
Can we use the PUT function here? do you buddies know how to use it?
(by the way this exercise is to prepare a co-ord table for Setting out points)

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

Anonymous — Thu, 26 May 2011 18:25:33 GMT

As Juha said, I don't know a way to display x, y coords in schedules.
Basic component list is the only possibility I can see for the moment.

May be Karl or other folks could tell you more.

Just in case,

!!! ----- Master Script -----
	x = xOff + SYMB_POS_X + GLOB_WORLD_ORIGO_OFFSET_X 
	y = yOff + SYMB_POS_Y + GLOB_WORLD_ORIGO_OFFSET_Y 
	z = zOff + SYMB_POS_Z

!!! ----- Property Script -----
	component "X Location", x, 'm' 
	component "Y Location", y, 'm' 
	component "Z Location", z, 'm'

No need to declare x, y, z as parameters., x, y will return 0.

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

dhaval7shah — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:44:19 GMT

Olivier wrote:

!!! ----- Master Script -----
	x = xOff + SYMB_POS_X + GLOB_WORLD_ORIGO_OFFSET_X 
	y = yOff + SYMB_POS_Y + GLOB_WORLD_ORIGO_OFFSET_Y 
	z = zOff + SYMB_POS_Z

!!! ----- Property Script -----
	component "X Location", x, 'm' 
	component "Y Location", y, 'm' 
	component "Z Location", z, 'm'

Thanks Olivier. Do i need to define these components in database too ? and then add them in the 'components' window ?

Re: X Y co-ordinates of the object

Anonymous — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:12:21 GMT

Not needed.
Document > Shedules and Lists > Component Lists > Basic. That's all.
Export under the format you need.

To separate different objects, you can sort them by ID, for eg.

!!! ----- Property Script -----
	component GLOB_ID + " X Location", x, 'm' 
	! etc...