topic Modify "Railing Vertical" gsm object in Libraries & objects

Modify "Railing Vertical" gsm object

Anonymous — Sat, 01 May 2010 09:24:53 GMT

Hi.

Is there a way to modify the "Railing Vertical" gsm object that comes in Archicad 9 own library, to display a different vertical bar (made by me)?

I mean, replacing the simple vertical bar with a classical curved bar.

I know this involves GDL editing, but I don't know where to start.

A little help is appreciated.

Re: Modify "Railing Vertical" gsm object

David Maudlin — Sat, 01 May 2010 11:17:20 GMT

cris2d2:

In the US version of Railing Vertical (which has an annotated script!) starting at line 69 (labeled !!!!!!!!Vertical Bars!!!!!!!!) of the 3D Script is the code for this part of the object. The actual command is
Prism_ 5,zzyzx-hrh-lcbh-ucbh-2*lh,
-bth/2,-bw/2,15,
bth/2,-bw/2,15,
bth/2,bw/2,15,
-bth/2,bw/2,15,
-bth/2,-bw/2,-1

It looks like the bar is placed at its center point, so inserting a replacement should be straight forward. The simplest approach is to simply substitute the code for your bar for the one in the script. Fancier approaches would create a new parameter for the bar type, then either through sub routines or If...Then statements give an option for bar types.

Enjoy,

David

Re: Modify "Railing Vertical" gsm object

Anonymous — Sat, 01 May 2010 13:13:45 GMT

David wrote:
cris2d2:

In the US version of Railing Vertical (which has an annotated script!) starting at line 69 (labeled !!!!!!!!Vertical Bars!!!!!!!!) of the 3D Script is the code for this part of the object. The actual command is
Prism_ 5,zzyzx-hrh-lcbh-ucbh-2*lh,
-bth/2,-bw/2,15,
bth/2,-bw/2,15,
bth/2,bw/2,15,
-bth/2,bw/2,15,
-bth/2,-bw/2,-1

It looks like the bar is placed at its center point, so inserting a replacement should be straight forward. The simplest approach is to simply substitute the code for your bar for the one in the script. Fancier approaches would create a new parameter for the bar type, then either through sub routines or If...Then statements give an option for bar types.

Enjoy,

David

Thanks, I'll try it as soon as I can.