topic Roof Angle Label in Libraries & objects

Roof Angle Label

Anonymous — Wed, 14 Jan 2004 05:01:33 GMT

How do I modfiy the roof label to show the pitch in the "3:12" format? It would also be nice to have the arrow show the pitch direction. I obviously have no gdl experience. I figure I need to look for all the assiciative labels before I "dumb draft" them on my plans. Other roof labels would be "valley, ridge, hip". I suppose having AC call out a "warped vally" is too much to ask??

Please advice.....I have 33 roof house and the clients keep changing their minds.....I shutter at editing the text on some 50 labels on my roof plan. I am looking for associative labels to do that for me.

Thank you,
Jeff

Re: Roof Angle Label

vfrontiers — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:54:02 GMT

Just so happens I have a ROOF LABEL that is associative to the roof. I cannot get it to rotate to be perpendicular to the SPRING LINE but that is a job for an API I presume. If someone has suggestions, let me know.

This particular tool reads the pitch and displays in 3":12" or 1/4":FT etc. if your slope is less than 1":12"...

I can show it to you at ACUWest!

Also have a LABEL that read T.o.WALL / B.o.WALL... very slick for Parapet Hts or Site Walls....

Re: Roof Angle Label

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 10:54:22 GMT

I will be at ACuwest.
Can you email me the label? jeff@modernmagic.com
It is rather urgent?

Thank you,
Jeff Mayland

Re: Roof Angle Label

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 13:49:00 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
This particular tool reads the pitch and displays in 3":12" or 1/4":FT etc. if your slope is less than 1":12"...

I can show it to you at ACUWest!

You can try this one if you want : it will only display the slope in ° (plus minor thing such as surface and projected horizontal surface...)

With this base, you might be able to tweak it to meet your needs until Duane explains his method at ACUWest...

Re: Roof Angle Label

vfrontiers — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:45:33 GMT

Hey, no fair.... I tried to upload mine with the POST but it would just DISAPPEAR when I hit sbmit....

Hmmmm. any ideas? is that 5k limit for OBJ? Do I have to .zip it?

I am trying again...

Re: Roof Angle Label

vfrontiers — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:51:28 GMT

Hmmm. Why didn't that work last night? I guess if I read the ALLOWED EXTENSIONS and SIZES, I would have know that it needs to be zipped....

Please try it... Some notes...

1. Doesn't AutoROTATE, can do manually.
2. My attempts to combat AC's auto rotate were futile, so I had to stick in a MIRROR command...

footnote: How come I can stick a parameter in that WILL mirror (actually rotate 180) but when I use a CONDITIONAL statement inside the script it won't figure it out? IE. if symb_rot_angle >90.1 and symb_rot_angle<179.99 ....
(ps. I am using GLOBS from memory here... I am sure I had the correct spelling before)

Re: Roof Angle Label

Anonymous — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:07:40 GMT

vfrontiers wrote:
Hey, no fair....

Don't worry !
The object I posted is rather basic and far from pro

This is based on the same label I use for my slabs (see post : http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=4102&highlight=slab+label#4102)

Re: Roof Angle Label

Ben Cohen — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:03:24 GMT

This is based on the same label I use for my slabs (see post : http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=4102&highlight=slab+label#4102)

BTW Geoffroy thanks for that label and help on beams etc, I have had great success with my adaptation....... it has got me very interested in GDL

But I am having the same problems with the label rotation, Archicad GDL guide gives no explanation but I am still very satisfied

thanks again

Ben