topic Re: Automatic assignment of element id by critera in Libraries & objects

Automatic assignment of element id by critera

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:24:58 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone have any idea of how you can automatically assign door orientations in the elements' IDs? I want the end of the element id to have a "left" or "right" letter. I've tried using the Element ID manager but it seems to me that it either assigns IDs to all selected doors or ALL doors. Furthermore this method needs a manual update to reassign IDs for new doors or changed once.

Regards
Alex

Re: Automatic assignment of element id by critera

Erwin Edel — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 10:32:17 GMT

You could select them using a schedule perhaps. I can imagine it being a lot of work on a huge project. With the typical large residential projects our office does mostly, it's generally about 10-15 different ID's alltogether so I just do it manually.

Re: Automatic assignment of element id by critera

Laszlo Nagy — Mon, 01 Dec 2014 17:10:08 GMT

You will not be able to modify Element IDs like that automatically.
However, if your purpose is schedules, you might have another way.
You could create a custom IFC property and put its value together from the ID and Orientation parameters of Doors using AC18's new IFC Mapping feature. Then you would be able to schedule that custom IFC Property.
Check out this post. It talks about creating custom IFC Properties, then mapping values to them. It talks about Labels, but the first 2-3 steps apply to this case as well:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=233623#233623

Re: Automatic assignment of element id by critera

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 08:46:42 GMT

Yes it is a great feature! I guess it would work for both the schedule and on plan view which I would like. Unfortunately this project is running in AC17.

Re: Automatic assignment of element id by critera

Erwin Edel — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:29:16 GMT

Other idea: perhaps modify the marker object to include the orientation after the ID. This won't fix the issue in schedules probably and this requires some knowledge of GDL though.

Re: Automatic assignment of element id by critera

Erwin Edel — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:33:59 GMT

I had a quick look in the GDL reference guide, the global to call on is L:

WIDO_ORIENTATION

Maybe this helps

You would have to extract your library LCF file to a folder, look for the marker object you are using, open that and modify it.

Re: Automatic assignment of element id by critera

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 09:18:50 GMT

I'm trying to edit the marker so that it displays the orientation after the ID on the floor plan but I don't seem to figure out how to call correctly on the WIDO_ORIENTATION.

I want to edit the 2D script by adding: + WIDO_ORIENTATION but it doesn't output left/right on the floor plan. This method works fine if I add a text or number for example: + "10" outputs 10 after the ID on the floor plan. Any idea on how to call on that door parameter?