topic Re: Revived: Section marker on plan and section range shoold be different, detached things in Documentation

Revived: Section marker on plan and section range shoold be different, detached things

Davor P — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 00:42:30 GMT

https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Wishes/Section-marker-on-plan-and-section-range-shoold-be-different/td-p/292433
Reviving this question, for the community mainly as I would be surprised if GS did anything to actually resolve some of the long standing issues such as this.
Edit: I am aware of the independent marker workaround but consider it not the best solution.
What I am finding interesting about the section marker with two heads is that there are two editable hotspots at the marker heads but both move the text. If only one, middle marker head is turned on, then one of the hotspots moves the marker head. Is this an error? Why would you have two hotspots do the same thing?
Has anyone dug into the GDL behind the markers in question? I had a quick look and was trying to figure out what is the parameter that controls marker head in the middle vs two marker heads at the ends.
I know there are some big GDL brains around here so maybe we can figure this one out?

Re: Revived: Section marker on plan and section range shoold be different, detached things

SAM-PBD — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 02:13:29 GMT

Hi Davor,

Did you get any traction with this?
I saw that there was some effort in this back in 2011-ish. There were a couple prototypes created but I dont know if they still exist. David Maudlin had an object, and there was one out of the Netherlands that I cant find.
https://www.davidmaudlin.com/ArchiCAD/DigitalArchitecture/ResLib/ResLib01S/ResLib01S.html

Is there a way in 2025 to create a section marker that is separate from the section boundaries?

Sam

Re: Revived: Section marker on plan and section range shoold be different, detached things

David Maudlin — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 14:45:29 GMT

To clarify: The section marker in my Residential Library is an independent Object, it is not associated with a Section, so the references are set in the object parameters, not by a Section.

David