topic Re: How can I call a zone's ID in a label tool in Libraries & objects

How can I call a zone's ID in a label tool

Erika Epstein — Sat, 17 May 2008 16:50:30 GMT

I am using James Murray's Shape Tag and would like to add a parameter to call the ID of the Zone that it is placed in. Is this possible and if so how?

I am trying to work around not having overlapping zones as this causes problems with schedules. And working around also not being able to have a zone tag display differently for different layer combinations. In this case I must have a round tag with the zone's ID.

Thanks,
Erika

Re: How can I call a zone's ID in a label tool

James Murray — Sat, 17 May 2008 20:00:13 GMT

Are you using the object or the label? I don't think you can label zones per se. An object should be able to know the zone name, number, category, etc using the zone_relations request.

Then it's a matter of putting that number string in TEXT2 statement instead of the object ID or custom string.

I'll take a look at it and give more details when I get some time.

HTH,

Re: How can I call a zone's ID in a label tool

Erika Epstein — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:56:26 GMT

Hi James,
I am using your
Shape Tag JM9.gsm

To meet some local school district graphics guidelines I need to show a circle with the room number. I'm using zone for the room name and number on the plans.

Thanks for your help with this.
Erika

Re: How can I call a zone's ID in a label tool

Anonymous — Mon, 19 May 2008 10:57:56 GMT

Unfortunately zone_relations can't request zone id so I have used zone number instead when possible.

maybe this helps:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=116092&highlight=label#116092

Re: How can I call a zone's ID in a label tool

James Murray — Tue, 27 May 2008 17:02:37 GMT

Sorry for the delay. I hope this is what you want. Choose 'Zone #' for the Text parameter.

Re: How can I call a zone's ID in a label tool

Erika Epstein — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:55:03 GMT

James wrote:
Sorry for the delay. I hope this is what you want. Choose 'Zone #' for the Text parameter.

IT works! IT WORKS!!!!
James your brilliant!!!!!

Thanks so much
I can't stop smiling

Re: How can I call a zone's ID in a label tool

Ignacio Azpiazu — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 23:24:26 GMT

Erika wrote:
IT works! IT WORKS!!!!
James your brilliant!!!!!

This object is so cool. I have been using it for about a year for tagging modules that I need to schedule --the tags get scheduled. Over time I made a few tweaks:
- a rotation-awareness option so that the tag can stay horizontal when the modules rotate,
- the option for making the text include a custom 'mirrored' flag when the module gets mirrored, and
- a minimal 3D existence so that the tags can be Find-Selected multistory in the 3D window for editing font sizes or whatever (this is currently not very elegant, I think I had made a previous version work without the line but I can't remember how).