[SCRIPT] Auto-numbering elements using a polyline using Tapir

[Mathias Jonathan]

I created a "proof of concept" with claude AI for automatic numbering the element ID using proximity to a polyline.

How to use the script?

-Place the gdl object "AutomaticNumberingPolyline" (This is a renamed version of SinceV6 polyline object that you can find here ) on the floor plan.

-Select the object "AutomaticNumberingPolyline" and the elements to number.

-Launch the script (Python palette or double click on the script (The script will work on the first opened archicad instance)

-When asked, Enter the starting number for the first element

-Done

here is a video example (Please forgive my English, we're not very well known for our linguistic talents in France.^^):

How to install the script?

-Install the last version of Python 

-Install the last version of the Tapir Plugin (Opensource plugin that gives access to new python commands in archicad that are needed for this script)

(Optionnal for easy use if you have a subscription or SSA)

-How to show the python palette 

How does the script work?

1-Recover the coordinates of a polyline object coordinates stored in the object's GDL parameters and retrieved with the corresponding Tapir command
2-Recover the C centers of the 2D bounding boxes of each object to be numbered O
3-Find the nearest point P on the polyline for each C-center
4-Determine the relative position of each point P along the polyline
5-Sort objects O according to this position
6-Number the objects in this order

Thanks a lot to the Tapir team, especially @Tibor Lorantfy, @Viktor Kovacs, and @jorgebeneitez.

[scottjm]

Wow nice! This is a very interesting and exciting proof of concept. 

The thing about these creations is they unfortunately aren’t particularly accessible for a basic user. (Ie the user needs to have python and tapir installed and know how to open the python palette and find the script and run it) But to make them accessible basically means you’d have to write the whole thing in c++ as a full blown addon. Python is so much nicer to code in. 

[Mathias Jonathan]

Tapir's development team has created a much more accessible palette for launching scripts (in progress). Graphisoft will be releasing an addon store, which should help deploy this kind of solution.

I've modified the script to use a real polyline instead of an object, which should make it much easier to use.

I'll share this new version once the new Tapir update is stable.

The other advantage of python is that you can quickly ask the AI to code these scripts, if you give it the missing part: the connection between archicad and python.
With a library of simple scripts, it's easy to imagine “power users” creating tailor-made tools for their colleagues.

[Mathias Jonathan]

And I think that the big issue is not to give a new tool that can be used “passively”, but rather a new opportunity for “power users” to propose new things, and to share them, by lowering the barrier of necessary knowledge (C++ to Python).