topic Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline in Documentation

Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Djordje — Wed, 17 May 2023 13:41:16 GMT

Hi guys! How's 2022?

A discussion elsewhere prompted me to check if there is a label reading the lenght of a line or a polyline. And it looks like it is not, and on top of that, you cannot ID or label a line or polyline.

Yes, there is a Travel Distance object that can be nicely reshaped and that shows its length in Imperial and metric, and can be tweaked... but that is thanks to the good will of the author of the Travel Distance object. There is also an addon at http://simpleaddon.com/Eng/td_product.html

So... more properties for the 2D elements? Lines, polylines, fills? Hm?

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Tim Ball — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 09:14:57 GMT

I have used morphs as lines which you can then read the length from. Useful for say travel distances in fire engineering diagrams

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

runxel — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:46:12 GMT

In one of the videos of KUBUS (dutch reseller) I once saw that they suggested using a railing for that. They used it for showing the direction and length of escape paths.

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Tim Ball — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:30:43 GMT

That would work too, but for me the morph is simpler. You can also add properties to a morph

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

runxel — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 15:55:07 GMT

Well, properties can also be added to a railing.

Morphlines are indeed a nice and somewhat easy option.

I think the greatest advantage of the railing is the fact that you can alter its look more flexible, since its parts are GDL. This opens up A LOT of possibilites....

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Piotr — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 16:05:09 GMT

What parameter/property do you use to read the length of the morph line? I can't find any that would show me that in autotext.

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

rm — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 01:26:45 GMT

Or....GS could provide a polyline tool that will calculate segment lengths and overall lengths. Colleagues in the US doing commercial work need to calculate egress path lengths for most building permit submittals, along with building perimeters. I believe AutoDesk has provided this capability within their software. I'm by no stretch a software programmer, but it seems this would be low hanging fruit to add into Archicad - hopefully in AC26.

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Tim Ball — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 08:59:14 GMT

I’ve often thought the railing tool could be seen as a 3D polyline. I use the railing tool for instance to create drainage runs.

Maybe a cut down railing tool with just one element would be a useful addition to our toolkit

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

MIXD — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:19:37 GMT

As you mention..

This ~~free~~ product illustrates the shortcoming of GS's Archicad development priorities ..:

http://simpleaddon.com/Eng/td_product.html

Hope it works..but i don't like to download and install in my add on folder from so many insecure sources...

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

MIXD — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 14:19:00 GMT

Oh.. and I see now that it is not for free...

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Mathias Jonathan — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 15:40:09 GMT

There is a free object based on the polyline accessory made by the french archicad user Yves (https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/14214)

You can download it on the french forum www.archi-cadlink.fr after a brief presentation.

You can perhaps ask him here if he can share it with you.

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Andre1 — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 08:44:55 GMT

In dutch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UK8ItxjE8

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

karsten_bauschert — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 08:56:45 GMT

For fire escape paths we have a specific object in our german special suscription library.
Anything similiar for international users?

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Sculptdesign — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 07:21:47 GMT

How do you make the label tool show the length of the morph?

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

Tim Ball — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:16:51 GMT

My apologies I made a mistake and don't use a morph to create the fire escape line - I use the railing tool.

I know it seems odd but I often use the railing tool as a 3D line tool for things like drainage runs and fire escape because you can then get access to the data including the 3D line length

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

kuvbur — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:39:39 GMT

You can get length of the morph to property via addon - https://github.com/kuvbur/AddOn_SomeStuff

Manual - https://github.com/kuvbur/AddOn_SomeStuff/wiki/List-of-possible-commands-in-property-descriptions-(gtanslate-version)

Re: Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

tpike66 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 01:16:09 GMT

Over 2 years later and nothing changed in this expensive product to allow autofill text of the length from a polyline. You can see that the polyline knows it's length (from Element Information) --but crickets from GS?