topic Re: gdl rotation help in Libraries & objects

gdl rotation help

Anonymous — Wed, 24 May 2023 08:33:25 GMT

Hi All

Could someone please tell me how to rotte this door so it works correctly please.
Thanks in advance

Re: gdl rotation help

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:48:46 GMT

mat c,
It appears you built this object in plan and then saved it as a GDL object.
Did you save from the plan as a door or as a general object ?
Did you save from the 3D window ?
You can tell by looking at the "sub-type" field at the top
of the parameter list.
If it says "General GDL Object" or something similar then it was
saved as a general object.

If it says something about being a door, which it apparently is because
it cuts holes in walls, then something is strange because doors and windows are modeled in the 3d script as lying flat on the X Y plane
and are tipped up when placed in a wall in the floor plan.
There are some strange rotations in the 3D script that I don't understand.

You may have to re-save the object you made in plan making sure
to save it as a door.

It might be possible to change the sub-type in the sub-type field
but I am not sure about this, in this particular case.

If it is a door then commenting out some of those strange rotations,
starting with ROT x, might fix the object.

Peter Devlin

Re: gdl rotation help

TomWaltz — Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:36:44 GMT

mat wrote:
Hi All

Could someone please tell me how to rotte this door so it works correctly please.
Thanks in advance

It looks like you either need to get rid of the ROTX 90 statement or change it to ROTX -90, since the X-axis rotation is off by 90 degrees.

If you get rid of it, make sure to adjust the DEL statemement as well.

Re: gdl rotation help

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:27:54 GMT

Thanks for your help guys.

It was saved as a door object, so I changed the rotx and rotz both to 0 and she works fine.

Mat