Tl;dr Is there a way to pull information from a defined zone for an object in the zone by using properties and expressions?
I've been trying to automate a lot of my workflow by using the properties manager to create interconnected properties for schedules. That way, there is very little room for human error when updating information.
I was wondering if within the Archicad Property Manager different objects would be stored in lists that could then be called upon. For example, in Python, you can search through a list and give specifications that choose something out of the list. I would like to call a list of Zone Numbers, choose one out of the list, and pull information from it, if that's possible. I'm hoping I could do this somehow without a plugin.
A rough example would be to create a property CardinalDirectionWindow for a window (we already have entered it for the zones):
Window Property: CardinalDirectionWindow
Expression: if WindowNumber contains ZoneNumber in Zones, assign CardinalDirectionWindow the value of CardinalDirectionZone
The idea is that we have objects that are within zones, and we would like to pull the information from the zone and utilize for individual objects like doors, windows, and walls. While we could just select all the north facing windows and hit north (like in the example), this creates a property that is automatically updated and doesn't require multiple passes of manually entering information, which introduces more opportunity for human error. Within the Property Manager, there is already an attribute for object within a zone called something like "related zone number," which we have used to generate a unique ID (ex. FloorNumber.RelatedZoneNumber.DoorNumber), but I'm not sure how much more information we can pull.
Thanks in advance!
Operating system used: Mac Intel-based
