topic Re: list of line types and fills? in Libraries & objects

list of line types and fills?

SeaGeoff — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:16:15 GMT

Howdy,
first let me say that after two years with AC I’m am no longer a GDL virgin! I tried to hold out as long as possible but just couldn’t resist the urge to modify some parts. Now I’m in trouble as I’ve already spent a few late nights tweaking code

My thrust at the moment is refining office standards, so I’m tweaking bugs and markers or just building them from scratch. As I explained in a recent topic one thing I need for new employees is a graphic chart showing the line types and fills we have as part of our template. But I cannot find a function that returns the number of fills, line types, materials, etc. so I can script a loop to draw each one. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance.

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Tue, 21 Sep 2004 21:46:28 GMT

Geoff,

What I do is just create a parameter that lets me set the number of times to reenter the loop.

I have found that even if the number is larger than the number of available fills, line types, etc. it's not a problem.

I am attaching a little thing I made (nothing fancy) to show all the fills in a project to demonstrate the idea.

Re: list of line types and fills?

SeaGeoff — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 02:23:14 GMT

Way cool Matthew, thanks. Best way to learn is dissect other people's code.

So I guess there is no function that returns the number of fills, materials, or line types? Seems an oversight.

Re: list of line types and fills?

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:21:58 GMT

Matthew wrote:
I am attaching a little thing I made (nothing fancy) to show all the fills in a project to demonstrate the idea.

Unzipped fine, but not recognized as a library part on Windows (in 8.1 or 9.0) ... is it just me?

Karl

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:33:45 GMT

Thanks, Matthew. Very interesting.
Perfect even until small details. Fill names display on different lines,
so they don't overlap with long names. Excellent.
Works correctly for me on Mac.

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 19:56:28 GMT

Karl wrote:
Matthew wrote:
I am attaching a little thing I made (nothing fancy) to show all the fills in a project to demonstrate the idea.
Unzipped fine, but not recognized as a library part on Windows (in 8.1 or 9.0) ... is it just me?

Karl

Strange, I thought that cross platform thing was handled years ago (version 6?). You can always just grab the text with any text editor and paste it into a blank 2D script. I am attaching a snapshot of the parameter window if you feel like going to all the trouble. I'll see if I can check it out on my ThinkPad later.

BTW: A cool thing you can do with this toy is explode the object and copy/paste (or modulize) fills from different files so you can sort out the ones you like, organize them by type, and save modules for later. ScrapIt Pro also works great for making a catalog of fill patterns.

Re: list of line types and fills?

Karl Ottenstein — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:05:45 GMT

"Matthew LohdenStrange, I thought that cross platform thing was handled years ago (version 6?). [/quote wrote:

It was some strange unzip thing. I downloaded again, unzipped again, and the (slightly larger) gsm works fine now!

Sorry for crying wolf.

Very handy object, and a nice concise example of using GDL, Matthew.

Karl

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 20:10:20 GMT

Karl wrote:
It was some strange unzip thing. I downloaded again, unzipped again, and the (slightly larger) gsm works fine now!

Sorry for crying wolf.

Very handy object, and a nice concise example of using GDL, Matthew.

Karl

Thanks for the update. It saves me a trip back to Win2K (for now).

Glad you like it, and thanks for the compliment.

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 21:26:06 GMT

Now that you got me going...

I couldn't resist a little tweaking to the part to avoid the inconvenience of having to guess (or look up, or count) how many fills are in the project.

Now it just uses the available area, and you can just stretch it until you have all the fills. (Just don't make it smaller than 1 unit high or wide. I didn't put in the error correcting code and it will create a divide by zero error.)

Re: list of line types and fills?

Jochen Suehlo — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 09:48:17 GMT

In the German Library of AC 81 is something like the object of Matthew.
It is also available for Pens and Linetypes. You can find the files appended.

Re: list of line types and fills?

Karl Ottenstein — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:40:50 GMT

Joachim wrote:
In the German Library of AC 81 is something like the object of Matthew.
It is also available for Pens and Linetypes. You can find the files appended.

Thanks for posting, Joachim!

Karl

Re: list of line types and fills?

Djordje — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:46:49 GMT

Matthew wrote:
I couldn't resist a little tweaking to the part to avoid the inconvenience of having to guess (or look up, or count) how many fills are in the project.

VERY useful; no time for tweaks, so I have to nag: if you stretch, the hotspots don't always keep at the corners, and the fill name text can mix, depending on the scale.

Re: list of line types and fills?

SeaGeoff — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 04:56:58 GMT

I forgot to thank everyone here. I Modified and translated the German objects. Just the ticket

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 07:25:21 GMT

I just saw today a new item under the Tools menu in AC 8.1- Test it! It's what we need - it places all the fills in the Drawing and the are placed as fills so you can AltClick on them!

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:06:07 GMT

Kliment wrote,

I just saw today a new item under the Tools menu in AC 8.1- Test it! It's what we need - it places all the fills in the Drawing and the are placed as fills so you can AltClick on them!

I don't seem to have that in my tools menu. Is it an add on located in another location? Thanks

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 15:12:44 GMT

Hi Kliment, same thing here on Mac. Can you give more explanations? Thanks

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 07:38:25 GMT

It's an Add-on and it's called FillPlace2.apex.

Isn't it included in the standard AC installation?!

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Oct 2004 15:11:52 GMT

It's an Add-on and it's called FillPlace2.apex.

Isn't it included in the standard AC installation?

It was not included in the version I have. Could you email it to me privately? Thanks

Re: list of line types and fills?

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:35:50 GMT

It seems I have downloaded this Add-on from somewhere but I don't remember from where.

I'm sure I haven't been asked to pay for it and it must have been free for download for everybody.

So, big THANKS to who wrote it! It's really a great tool to use! And I hope I could humbly post it here in this forum for all the AC users to enjoy it! :