topic Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects! in Libraries & objects

Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:22:30 GMT

As far as I know I cannot use the profiles defined through the profile manger in my GDL objects.
That's really too bad as it could be a great to way to make some objects really dynamic. It could be a step towards a graphic Interface to GDL.

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Ben Cohen — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:35:36 GMT

you can use custom components. You can create custom components from a complex profile then bring them into your library part

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 08:12:21 GMT

Ho ho ! sounds good ! I'll look into that.

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Laszlo Nagy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:05:36 GMT

Have you tried dragging the fills from the Profile Manager Editing Window and dropping it into the 2D Script of the GDL Object?
That should generate the GDL code for the section profile.
I have not tried this, but in principle it should work.

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:12:32 GMT

Yes there is this method, but I'm after a way to use profiles in GDL objects that can be changed graphically, without going through using code.

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Anonymous — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:20:05 GMT

I can't resist telling you an idea as it could be so simple to implement in Archicad and could give such big possibilities:

In the choices under "save as components" you could just implement a new one called "profile", which would be a GDL script with the coordinates of the 2d fill, or the slab, selected on the plan. Then it is our job to use them in our objects

Of course it would be even easier to give us a way to use in objects the stored profiles.

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Ralph Wessel — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:07:35 GMT

Olivier wrote:
In the choices under "save as components" you could just implement a new one called "profile", which would be a GDL script with the coordinates of the 2d fill, or the slab, selected on the plan. Then it is our job to use them in our objects

Try the OBJECTiVE add-on. You can easily create and modify profiled GDL objects (swept, extruded, etc):

1) Draw a fill with the required profile and use the menu OBJECTiVE/Component/New Profile to create a new profiled object
2) You can obtain a fill with the profile shape at any time with OBJECTiVE/Component/Extract Profile, edit the shape, and reapply it with OBJECTiVE/Component/Change Profile

Refer to the attached image. For more info, take a look at: http://www.encina.co.uk/objective.html

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:20:24 GMT

This Objective add on is really impressive!
It would fit my objective and a lot more. But my idea was to be able to use these profiles in my own objects, by choosing them as a parameter, and i'm not sure i can do that here.
It is so simple that it should be inside AC.
But Objective looks really great anyway, I have to try it.

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Erich — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:43:38 GMT

Oliver,

Depending on just what it is you want to do, Laszlo suggestion works quite well. I use this method for trims for my doors. It only takes a few seconds to create a new profile and apply it to the door. However, you have to know GDL and you need to take some care on how you set up the part.

That said, Objective provides much greater on the fly freedom that writing GDL for a specific part.

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:30:27 GMT

OT ... beautiful example of proper wood grain orientation on the door panel, Erich. It is a shame that after all of these years, no Graphisoft doors/windows do this for the panels or frames and that the user has to do it him/herself.

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Access to profiles from GDL objects!

Erich — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:16:24 GMT

Karl,

Yeah a program made by architects for architects right ? But thanks for the compliment.