topic Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O in Parametric design

Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

Anonymous — Thu, 25 May 2023 07:06:46 GMT

Hi all,

Is there a possibility to create hotspots on certain coordinates directly in PARAM-O?

Thank you,
Oli

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 18:46:21 GMT

You can use "GDL Shape".

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

William Yan — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:43:43 GMT

NMK195 wrote:
You can use "GDL Shape".

This is a way! Thanks!

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

JokeSwinnen — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:11:51 GMT

Is there any way to create hotspots without GDL? I used a shape of a profile and would like to have hotspots on every corner of the profile.

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

ryejuan — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 06:10:30 GMT

Just a simple question, wanted to know how do I attached the GDL Shape to a specific corner or mid point of the object? Thanks!

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

Scott Deisher — Wed, 08 Mar 2023 16:23:21 GMT

I have this same question; I've been able to use the GDL Shape component to manually add specific hotspot values to the object, but cannot get them to work in 2D and cannot figure out how to use a point in the script (or a variable parameter) to place a hotspot rather than hardcoding the point location in the GDL component. Did anyone solve this?

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

ryejuan — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 01:22:04 GMT

I didn't have any reply from anyone regarding about this question.

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

Barry Kelly — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 01:26:43 GMT

I have not really played much with Param-o, but I assume you would have to use a transformation (is that the correct term?) based on the object or element size and link the hotspot shape to that transformation.

Barry.

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

Bee-am — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 07:55:46 GMT

@Scott Deisher Have you (or anyone) been able to find a solution to this yet?

We are also having issues where we need to use the custom hotspots as placement anchors in 2D. Because Param-o defined hotspots are only as per the object's rectangular bounding box, it's a pain to place irregular or regular but offset objects.

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

Scott Deisher — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:19:46 GMT

I have not found a solution to this. Once I got the Rhino/Grasshopper plugin working smoothly, I pretty much abandoned creating objects using Param-O because of limitations like the one we're discussing.

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

RhinoX — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 16:01:09 GMT

I do not agree, Param-O has some limitations in creating shapes but GH-Archicad live connection has limits works to Archicad also, better to use them both.

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

ryejuan — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:57:57 GMT

Hi, I understand that you will use GDL Shape but where will connect the node or just simply place it somewhere in the canvas? Thanks!

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

Andras Bognar — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:05:48 GMT

That will make hotspot(s) only in 3D, not on the 2D floor plan view...

Is there a way to set hotspots that are visible on the floor plan view?

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

cuba — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 09:14:40 GMT

As far as I Know, you can only add 2d hotspots in GDL. This works very well in combination with param-o.

There is an excellent tutorial about hotspots on "Barking Dog Bim"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b99b7HBqoiA

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

B_Migito — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:01:12 GMT

Hi there,

You can use the same transformation on a gdl shape to get the result you want but it'll still be only in 3D

Shame about 2D but that's all I've managed since I started playing with Param-o

Re: Creating hotspots in PARAM-O

Andras Bognar — Wed, 07 May 2025 00:01:20 GMT

Yep, I used this for the 2D Hotspot: