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2d wardrobe symbol

Ahmed_K
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Hi,

My gdl skills are almost equal to 0, 

In the Archicad library there is a 2d symbol ofca rectangle and a cross inside of it,  that can be used for wardreobe  2d representation 

Can someone please script an object that can do this, but instead of a rectangle, the shape can be edited, 

In3d, the object shows the volume with a given thickness, and that volume can be repeated vertically to a given number with a given distance, 

Thanks


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Lingwisyer
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Edited to what extent? Still a rectangle?

 

And I do not get your 3D point or your 3rd drawing...

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Ahmed_K
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Here are screenshots to explain better, 

 


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DGSketcher
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Why does a slab not do the job, can you explain how an object would be better? I can't see any major benefit to it being an object, in presentation the doors are likely to be shut or the shelves easily duplicated. For quantities it would just be a single object, where a slab can be easily counted etc.

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Ahmed_K
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an object can be parametric, each wardrobe have a number of shelves that can be edited,also, shelves are combined in a single object that can be handled easily without the need of grouping slabs and managing them all together, 

for quantitiy takeoff, from an object i can extract :

1 - number of shelves, for that specific wardrobe

2- Area of shelves of that specific wardrobe, 

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DGSketcher
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@Ahmed_K This is one for the GDL experts... Extracting the number of shelves is easy, but I'm not aware of an easy way to pull the surface area of a random polygon shape in the standard GDL commands.

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Ahmed_K
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maybe using a composite Slab ( alterning wood and air space ) would be better in this way, 

or using a simple  slab, with 2 properties : shelves count , shelves area ( a formula : shelves count x 1 shelf area ) 

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It's not the modelling that is difficult, it's the maths to calculate the area of a random number of points. I'm sure there are some users round here that would solve that in a few minutes but it's beyond my skill set. 

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This is true, i have spent many hours trying to write algorithms to calculate the areas.

however there is a way to calculate the total shelf area, But its more or less a hack.

you set the shelf thickness to .001 only in the schedule which will allow you calculate the material area with basically no thickness.

Ahmed_K
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in this case this can be helpful ! 

the object is used for 2D representation and calculations, no need for the thickness , to represend thikness in section you can just use a thick pen ,

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