topic Re: curved curtain walls in Libraries & objects

curved curtain walls

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:39:08 GMT

In curved curtain walls if one sets the angle less than 15 degrees. the library part gets an error in parameter buffer statement at line 170 of curtain wall curved .gsm. It will not show on 3d nor in elevations.
Can any gdl guru help? I opened the library part but I dont know any GDL and its hard tol ook for line 170 since the lines on the script are not numbered.
Thanks

Re: curved curtain walls

TomWaltz — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:42:56 GMT

I cannot help find the problem right now, but CMD-L (or CTRL-L on Windows) will open the "Go To Line Number:" dialog.

I suspect the problem is really not an bug in the script, more that it was designed to work within a certain range. If you go outside that range, the script starts havign all kinds of problems. There are a lot of Graphisoft objects like that.

Re: curved curtain walls

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 14:57:11 GMT

Tom,

When the script fails to trap for errors, I call it a bug. I assume that the assumptions/geometries in the code fail below a certain angle, and this may be by design, but the parameter value should be restricted to prevent this. I am not necessarily faulting the author of the part. It may have been written before values lists were available and error trapping was was a major pain and not always possible. It could also have been sloppiness, lack of testing, or perhaps the thing is just to damn complicated (this is a problem with GDL itself in my opinion).

Re: curved curtain walls

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:28:13 GMT

Thank you for your interest.
Ive looked at line 170 of the script and its a tube part. (¿?)
Im thinking of buying daniel lindahl curtain wall object since it does curves.