topic Re: PM: What is the CODE to use in GDL for plotmaker labels? in Libraries & objects

PM: What is the CODE to use in GDL for plotmaker labels?

tsturm — Tue, 11 May 2004 21:18:53 GMT

I know that this has been discussed in one of these forums before. I could not find it using the search tool. I hope that someone has already done this before an knows what to use.

I have a detail box and want to use the auto numbering feature of Plotmaker. What is the command to use in the GDL script to get this done?

I looked all over the place for a part to read the code from.

TIA.

Re: PM: What is the CODE to use in GDL for plotmaker labels?

Anonymous — Tue, 11 May 2004 22:14:57 GMT

This subject can get rather complex and there are some mind bending subtleties for certain functions, but the easy bit is...

You can include the PlotMaker auto-text as a string (plain text in quotes or in the value of a string type variable) in the same format as it is in PM.

<DRAWINGNAME> for example. (I don't know if it is case sensitive, but as I recall PM uses all caps.)

Re: PM: What is the CODE to use in GDL for plotmaker labels?

Aussie John — Tue, 11 May 2004 22:31:14 GMT

Matthew wrote:
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<DRAWINGNAME> for example. (I don't know if it is case sensitive, but as I recall PM uses all caps.)

Matthew it appears it is

Re: PM: What is the CODE to use in GDL for plotmaker labels?

Laszlo Nagy — Wed, 12 May 2004 07:59:45 GMT

Yes, it must be all CAPS.
Check out 'Use of AUTOTEXT entities in PlotMaker' at
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/UseofAUTOTEXTinPM.html
Laszlo

Re: PM: What is the CODE to use in GDL for plotmaker labels?

tsturm — Wed, 12 May 2004 13:39:23 GMT

thanks Lazlo for the page link.

That was precisely what I was looking for.

thanks to GS for making the information available.