topic Re: Object w/ wrong dimensions in Libraries & objects

Object w/ wrong dimensions

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:32:56 GMT

Anyone ever have problems with the Archicad object "plotter 11" where one of the dimensions is always 76% smaller than the inputted dimension? Image is hard to read, object should be 6'X6'. Know of any other objects with similar problems?

Re: Object w/ wrong dimensions

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 03:40:39 GMT

This is a bug in the US library part. As best as I can tell from the script, it was probably an international/metric part that was hacked to meet some kind of US dimensions. But, not correctly.

I've posted the corrected version to the GDL Depository - you can download from the 11 Equipment > Office Equipment folder there:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/object_depository.php?

All that was changed was one line in each of the 2D and 3D scripts.

In the 2D script, the existing mul2 command was replaced with:
mul2 A*0.7722,B/.674

and in the 3D script, the existing mul was replaced with:
mul A*0.7722,B/.674,ZZYZX/1.1

(Only the scale factor affecting "A" was changed.)

Cheers,
Karl

Re: Object w/ wrong dimensions

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:11:33 GMT

thanks Karl

Re: Object w/ wrong dimensions

Karl Ottenstein — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:51:12 GMT

You're welcome. 😉

Karl