topic Re: Extract X & Y dimensions per Zone (room) in Collaboration with other software

Extract X & Y dimensions per Zone (room)

Michael — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:30:26 GMT

070707 AC friends:

Has anyone been able , usin the calculation commands, to extract X & Y dimensions per Zone (room) so as to place directly on the plan, or in the scheme setting lists.

Able to extract area, but unable to find x or y and to place in list.....

Michael

Re: Extract X & Y dimensions per Zone (room)

Laura Yanoviak — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 00:18:55 GMT

Tom Waltz's SuperZone object can do this on plan -- the X and Y are manually placed with dynamic hotspots -- I assume that these parameters may be called with scheme settings.

Re: Extract X & Y dimensions per Zone (room)

TomWaltz — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:52:42 GMT

Laura wrote:
Tom Waltz's SuperZone object can do this on plan -- the X and Y are manually placed with dynamic hotspots -- I assume that these parameters may be called with scheme settings.

That's not entirely complete. Once the Zone is placed, you can get it to read the room size by stretching hotspots to the extents of the room. It's not automatic, but you could schedule it if you wanted to.

The problem is that Archicad does not seem to know the X and Y extents of the zone and cannot report the size of the room that way. It seems odd, since it knows perimeter and area, you would think coordinates would be pretty easy.

Re: Extract X & Y dimensions per Zone (room)

Laura Yanoviak — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:06:42 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
Once the Zone is placed, you can get it to read the room size by stretching hotspots to the extents of the room. It's not automatic, but you could schedule it if you wanted to.

That's what I meant -- is that not what I said?

Re: Extract X & Y dimensions per Zone (room)

TomWaltz — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:35:04 GMT

Laura wrote:
TomWaltz wrote:
Once the Zone is placed, you can get it to read the room size by stretching hotspots to the extents of the room. It's not automatic, but you could schedule it if you wanted to.
That's what I meant -- is that not what I said?

sorry, that is what you said, I just seriously misread it... (that's what I get for surfing the internet when I get home from racing!)

Re: Extract X & Y dimensions per Zone (room)

Anonymous — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 16:48:41 GMT

TomWaltz wrote:
The problem is that Archicad does not seem to know the X and Y extents of the zone and cannot report the size of the room that way. It seems odd, since it knows perimeter and area, you would think coordinates would be pretty easy.

I've always figured it's because zones are not necessarily rectangular (or even rectilinear) so X & Y dimensions may not be meaningful - except in 99.99% of the cases

Even more annoying is that there seems to be no way to get the coordinates of the zone so that we could calculate our own extents function. I did the same as you with the stretchy nodes for manual input.