Automatic assignment of element id by critera

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Does anyone have any idea of how you can automatically assign door orientations in the elements' IDs? I want the end of the element id to have a "left" or "right" letter. I've tried using the Element ID manager but it seems to me that it either assigns IDs to all selected doors or ALL doors. Furthermore this method needs a manual update to reassign IDs for new doors or changed once.


Regards
Alex

[Erwin Edel]

You could select them using a schedule perhaps. I can imagine it being a lot of work on a huge project. With the typical large residential projects our office does mostly, it's generally about 10-15 different ID's alltogether so I just do it manually.

[Laszlo Nagy]

You will not be able to modify Element IDs like that automatically.
However, if your purpose is schedules, you might have another way.
You could create a custom IFC property and put its value together from the ID and Orientation parameters of Doors using AC18's new IFC Mapping feature. Then you would be able to schedule that custom IFC Property.
Check out this post. It talks about creating custom IFC Properties, then mapping values to them. It talks about Labels, but the first 2-3 steps apply to this case as well:

http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=233623#233623

[Anonymous]

Yes it is a great feature! I guess it would work for both the schedule and on plan view which I would like. Unfortunately this project is running in AC17.

[Erwin Edel]

Other idea: perhaps modify the marker object to include the orientation after the ID. This won't fix the issue in schedules probably and this requires some knowledge of GDL though.

[Erwin Edel]

I had a quick look in the GDL reference guide, the global to call on is L:

WIDO_ORIENTATION

Maybe this helps

You would have to extract your library LCF file to a folder, look for the marker object you are using, open that and modify it.

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to edit the marker so that it displays the orientation after the ID on the floor plan but I don't seem to figure out how to call correctly on the WIDO_ORIENTATION.

I want to edit the 2D script by adding: + WIDO_ORIENTATION but it doesn't output left/right on the floor plan. This method works fine if I add a text or number for example: + "10" outputs 10 after the ID on the floor plan. Any idea on how to call on that door parameter?