topic Re: Customizing the kitchen cabinets in Libraries & objects

Customizing the kitchen cabinets

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:32:21 GMT

Is there a way to change the upper drawer hight in the kitchen cabinets (Casework 13)?.
They come with 5 1/4"H. and I need them to be 6"H.

Re: Customizing the kitchen cabinets

David Maudlin — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:29:02 GMT

fransole:

This might be managed if you are willing to fool around with the scripts. For example, for the object Cabinet Base 1D 13, in the Master Script at Line 20 is the code:

if bDrawer then
	drawer_h=0.13
else
	drawer_h=0
endif

Where bDrawer is the parameter variable for turning on the drawer, and drawer_h is the height (0.13 is metric, so the Imperial equivalent is 5.12"). You could simply substitute 6" for 0.13 (if you use the feet and inch indicators, ArchiCAD will interpret the measure as Imperial rather than metric). If you wanted to make the drawer height parametric you could add the drawer_h as the variable for a new parameter in the main library part window and alter the Master Script.

This is from taking a brief look at this part and I have not tested it beyond a simple substitution, so I don't know if there are other parts of the object affected by this change.

David

Re: Customizing the kitchen cabinets

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 13:43:39 GMT

Thank you David.

I haven't played around with scripts yet but this will be a good chance to get in to it. Thank you so much.
F.S.

Re: Customizing the kitchen cabinets

David Maudlin — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:05:12 GMT

fransole:

This is a good exercise for getting your feet wet with GDL. It is a small specific change you are making, and the solution can be simple (hard coded dimension) or parametric (more complex but allows wider use). Post your result and maybe Graphisoft will use this in a future library revision .

David

Re: Customizing the kitchen cabinets

Andy Thomson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:23:55 GMT

Well, it is 2012, AC15, still no change. Good thing I did not hold my breath!