topic Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list in Libraries & objects

Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

Anonymous — Mon, 22 May 2006 17:55:45 GMT

Hi!

Problem :
I have a complex GDL object with alot of diffent pieces. I want in the calculate meny - illustrated object draw every pieces (maybe more than one picture/view of every pieces) of the objekt and put some text to everything. I only got the object in 3d in an isometric view.

Is there anyone who can give me some tips? Where do I start? Or maybe there is some free GDL objects that work like this?

Greetings
Tobias

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

TomWaltz — Mon, 22 May 2006 18:03:05 GMT

Do you have a sketch of what you are looking for?

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

Anonymous — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:16:10 GMT

No, I don't have any sketch available where I'm now. But say as an ?easy? example I have a slab with beams and chipboards above it. Now I want to draw every beam in the bills of material if they are different too each other, and how the beam should be cut. I will also put some infotext to it. The slab is the object I draw. The object does all the other thing.

Is there a way to do this in the GDL object?

Did you understand what I'm searching for? I'm not using my english daily so it could sometimes be hard to understand me.

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

TomWaltz — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:40:19 GMT

TurboGlider wrote:
Did you understand what I'm searching for? I'm not using my english daily so it could sometimes be hard to understand me.

That's why I asked for a sketch.

There is a lot you could do with a GDL object. For it to show up in a schedule, you would have to do all your calculation in the Parameters or Master script, then sent those to the parameter list of the object with a PARAMETERS statement.

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

Frank Beister — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:07:07 GMT

Have a look to the DRAWING-commands, which bring up (AFAIR) 2d/3d symbols to the lists.

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:00:49 GMT

Thanks alot!

But another question. I have seen a command or status in ArchiCad so I could present different drawings depending on what view I show.

Like

IF viewport = "Section/Elevation" THEN
...
...
ELSE IF viewport = "Bills of material" THEN
...
ENDIF

What command / status should I look for?

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

Barry Kelly — Tue, 23 May 2006 10:03:24 GMT

TurboGlider wrote:
Thanks alot!

But another question. I have seen a command or status in ArchiCad so I could present different drawings depending on what view I show.

Like

IF viewport = "Section/Elevation" THEN
...
...
ELSE IF viewport = "Bills of material" THEN
...
ENDIF

What command / status should I look for?

GLOB_CONTEXT sounds like what you are after.
Barry.

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

Anonymous — Tue, 23 May 2006 20:01:41 GMT

Yes, GLOB_CONTEXT it is.

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 17:40:40 GMT

I think the way we did it was to create a string for each parameter that was tripped.

For example:

IF endcut = 'square' THEN 
   endcode = '01'
ELSE
   endcode = '02'
ENDIF

idstring = width + depth + length + endcode

This way the parameters that make each piece different create a "unique" code. This unique code was used with a REF COMPONENT statement in the properties script along with an element list that generated a piece count, piece description and a 2D drawing of the piece.

If I had to explain the REF COMPONENT, AC database and listing templates over again, I'm not sure I could. It's a pretty convoluted mess in there.

Re: Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

Jochen Suehlo — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:52:09 GMT

This way the parameters that make each piece different create a "unique" code. This unique code was used with a REF COMPONENT statement in the properties script along with an element list that generated a piece count, piece description and a 2D drawing of the piece.

Sean, could you please give us an example of the use of the REF COMPONENT command in use to produce a piece count and piece description.