topic Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object in Libraries & objects

Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Chazz — Tue, 10 May 2005 17:08:12 GMT

I'm in desperate need of a better interior elevation symbol --one that has linking to PM via sheet and drawing number, but which (crucially) can be rotated without the text going sideways. Also, it needs to have the drawing # at one point. See the sketch, below.

Has anyone made or seen such a beast? For me the "Interior elevation tool" doesn't cut it (no live linking to the sheets). My hope with this is that I can use the section tool and overlap as many section markers as req'd (up to 4) to elevate the interior walls I need.

Willing to buy, just haven't found it yet.... Unfortunately I don't have the GDL chops to make this myself. Any info greatly appreciated.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Stress Co_ — Wed, 11 May 2005 16:33:04 GMT

I too, would be interested in a marker like this.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 22:31:03 GMT

The attached symbol is close (I downloaded it from this forum but can't find the reply again, sorry). I would actually prefer it to be simpler with just the sheet number in the center and the drawing number in the arrow. It seems like it should be a simple edit but I'm still new to this and can't figure it out.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 00:27:25 GMT

sbatchelor wrote:
I downloaded it from this forum but can't find the reply again, sorry

The KA in the name suggests that it came from Tom Waltz. Is that right, Tom?

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

TomWaltz — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 05:12:53 GMT

Yep. That was my "tip of the month" object a while back.

Do you have a sketch of what you want? I could probably talk you through modifying it pretty easily. It sounds mostly like we need to delete the LINE2 statement that is the center line and change the TEXT2 statement for the sheet number to 0,0.

I can tell you more after I see your sketch (and get some sleep).

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 13:31:32 GMT

Here's a quick image of what I'm looking for. If you could talk me through it that would be great.
Thanks,
sam

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

TomWaltz — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:02:32 GMT

Is this your first GDL modification? It's not a hard one, but markers are a bit strange so the code is not as straight-forward as most are. This was also something I modified from a GS object. I tend to code a lot cleaner than this!

In the name of making this a learning experience, what have you tried so far?

Whenever I modify an object I am not familiar with, I start with figuring out generally what needs to be done.

From a conceptual standapoint, you need to:
1) Remove the line across the middle (remove a LINE2 statement)
2) Move the Sheet Number to the center of the box (which means removing an ADD2 statement and its corresponding DEL 1 statement, then changing the text STYLE to be middle-center justified (anchor 5 instead of 2)
3) Change the text in the arrow point to be the drawing number instead of the sheet number. (alter the TEXT2 statement to use the drawing number instead of the arrow text)

If you do not have any GDL experience, this might be a bit challenging, but the code has several comments in it (lines starting with an exclamation point) that might help you find your way around. If you have an hour or so to try it, I really recommend it. I think GDL is the most powerful feature of Archicad and the least used.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:28:12 GMT

Thanks, I think I got it. I had to do jurry rig something to center the sheet number in the box. I'm sure it's far from the most elegant script ever but it seems to work.
Thanks,
Sam

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

TomWaltz — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 15:57:43 GMT

sbatchelor wrote:
Thanks, I think I got it. I had to do jurry rig something to center the sheet number in the box. I'm sure it's far from the most elegant script ever but it seems to work.
Thanks,
Sam

In order to work, it just has to work. Elegance doesn't get the rent paid 🙂

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Brad Elliott — Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:07:06 GMT

Not to hijack this link but I think the Elevation Marker that is included will work fine for me except that it doesn't resize. I can resize the text but not the marker. And being inexperienced in the code I made a copy but can't figure out how to change the size. Any ideas?

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

TomWaltz — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:41:10 GMT

Brad wrote:
Not to hijack this link but I think the Elevation Marker that is included will work fine for me except that it doesn't resize. I can resize the text but not the marker. And being inexperienced in the code I made a copy but can't figure out how to change the size. Any ideas?

By resize, do you mean resize at different scales, or do you mean resize using the resize command?

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Brad Elliott — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 02:56:08 GMT

I just mean a simple resize using section marker size box in the section info box. It works for the other markers but not this one.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Brad Elliott — Wed, 12 Apr 2006 03:54:55 GMT

Never Mind. I have seen the beauty of Toms interior elevation part.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 17:59:40 GMT

I'M NOT HAPPY WITH THE INTERIOR ELEVATION SYMBOLS EITHER. I'M TRYING TO RESIZE THE SYMBOL AND JUST NOT LIKING THE RESULTS.. DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THERE ARE MORE SYMBOLS OUT THERE?
RYAN

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Chazz — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:32:06 GMT

RYAN wrote:
LOVE IS ALL

but ALL CAPS is not love.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 02:38:40 GMT

This is a new one I have that will be part of my templates for ArchiCAD 10 that will be available soon. As of now it is only available as part of the templates, but if there is enough interest I'll make it available separately.

Cheers,

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 06:08:39 GMT

I have written under this theme:

How about this detail section marker with separate end-figure?
Please see the section-detail in index.
This architect offic uses also AC as known.
It would be really great to downloade this marker.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Wed, 07 Jun 2006 22:35:13 GMT

As we transition to another version of Archicad, the auto reference features have changed somewhat making marker from 9 un-usable in 10. It seems like Graphisoft should address this very basic need with an appropriate marker that ships with the application.

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 15:15:10 GMT

This is what I have put together using elevation markers. It works well but it takes up some space which in a small room can be hard to fit it in with other annotations etc, especially if you need all four walls. The one I wish I could have is identical to interior elevation marker on Archi User 77 attached PDF (index sheet).

Re: Looking for a better Interior elevation marker object

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 20:10:30 GMT

The PDF-file from me is from NCS-office.
They are using AC (they have shown many times for AC-training guide)

I think, every marker from them is better than original AC-marker.
Pleas give us (AC-user) same marker !!! We need it.