topic Re: Storey Number in Libraries & objects

Storey Number

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:36:28 GMT

is their any way of reading the storey number that an object is placed on

Re: Storey Number

__archiben — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:11:55 GMT

damien wrote:
is their any way of reading the storey number that an object is placed on

according to the GDL reference manual:

REQUEST ("Story", "", index, story_name)

... but i'm not so flash with my GDL knowledge so wouldn't know how to implement it . . .

HTH
~/archiben

Re: Storey Number

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:58:33 GMT

thanks

but i was looking to control number rather than the name so that i could choose which stories to show a particular object on say storey 2-5 excluding storey 1 and below

Re: Storey Number

Ben Cohen — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:10:39 GMT

Hi Damien

Index is story number

Re: Storey Number

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:35:15 GMT

This may be what you can use.

GLOB_CH_STORY_DIST
Old name: S~
Type: numerical (integer value)
Possible range: positive or negative or zero.
Returns a number giving the relative position of the current story to the home story of the Library Part. The value of the variable is calculated by deducting the story number of the home story from the story number of the current story. Since there is no story-related information in the 3D Window, there the variable does not return a valid value.

This is from "Global GDL Parameters General Global Variables"
Written by László Nagy

Peter Devlin

Re: Storey Number

Anonymous — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:50:26 GMT

thanks all should be ok from here
thanks again

Re: Storey Number

Andy Thomson — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 05:14:20 GMT

A somewhat related question, I am trying to make a library part to represent switches and light fixtures, that are 'smart' enough to know (and display) their height relative to current story (not project zero or reference levels). I can't think of something similar to ape the code from - can someone suggest such an object, or how to do this?

Re: Storey Number

Frank Beister — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:56:18 GMT

Have you tried GLOB_ELEVATION?

Re: Storey Number

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:47:55 GMT

Would the "Show Element Information" Palette work for you? It will list the items home storey among other things.

Re: Storey Number

Anonymous — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 14:21:16 GMT

andyro wrote:
A somewhat related question, I am trying to make a library part to represent switches and light fixtures, that are 'smart' enough to know (and display) their height relative to current story (not project zero or reference levels). I can't think of something similar to ape the code from - can someone suggest such an object, or how to do this?

Andyro,
try SYMB_POS_Z-GLOB_HSTORY_ELEV

Below is an image of an electrical library I was working on quite sometime ago. All the objects have an option to display height...they also show a basic faceplate at the appropriate height in 3d.

HTH
Dan K

Re: Storey Number

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 00:56:20 GMT

Hello,
I had composed a reply to Andy's question last night
essentially saying what Frank said, use GLOB_ELEVATION.
But I reread Andy's post and decided that he was not
asking for GDL help but asking if there was some
object that did what he wanted that he could copy
the code from. I decided not post a reply because
I could not think of an object that did exactly what Andy wanted.

It looks like maybe Dan's objects might be what Andy needs.

While we are on the subject, My GDL manual says
GLOB_ELEVATION returns the height of the object
from the object's home story but László Nagy says in
"Global GDL Parameters General Global Variables"
that GLOB_ELEVATION returns the height of the object
from project zero.

I have not tested to find out which is correct
and wondered if anyone happens to know.
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

Re: Storey Number

Anonymous — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:31:05 GMT

Hello Andy,
Since I did not know of a library part that did what you wanted,
I edited a 2D library part which is an electrical symbol
to do what I think what you want it to do.
See attached.
Right now, all it does is display it's height from it's
home story and you have to, in the settings dialog,
assign it a height but it can be made to
elevate itself automatically by changing the script.

As to my question about GLOBAL_ELEVATION
the manual is correct.
Peter Devlin

Re: Storey Number

Andy Thomson — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:15:46 GMT

Thanks Peter. I am trying to figure out what I am looking at here, the difference between:

sp=" "

ht=glob_elevation


ss=str("%0.64fi",ht)

TEXT2    0', 0', "4"+sp+"@"+sp+ss

and:

		ADD2 0, -rad*2
	TEXT2 0, 0, STR("%2.1fi",J_)

Somebody gave me a part with the latter, no glob_elevation and it works just the same...I am no GDL guy, I am just in the babysteps beginner mode, of staring at this for a long time until I understand what is going on. What is the STR("%___fi",_) bit referring to?

Re: Storey Number

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:25:22 GMT

Hello Andy
STR("%___fi",_) is a function that converts a numeric variable
into a string so that the text2 command can use it.
Look it up under "string functions" in the GDL manual.

"J_" is the old name for GLOB_ELEVATION so the two pieces of code
work the same because they are the same except for the transformations
needed to get the text out of the way of the symbol.
Peter Devlin

Re: Storey Number

Andy Thomson — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:28:38 GMT

Peter wrote:
"J_" is the old name for GLOB_ELEVATION so the two pieces of code
work the same because they are the same except for the transformations
needed to get the text out of the way of the symbol.
Peter Devlin

Ah! Thank you....that makes sense...