AI + GDL

[Patrick M]

I spent way too much time trying to teach chatbots, like chatgpt and gemini, the gdl help manuals/cookbook/etc... every script they threw at me was total garbage.
It turns out the 'full version' of claude is actually really useful for generating scripts, and even includes help guides for setting up parameter lists and trouble shooting bad script!

I threw a complex light fixutre together with a cut sheet, manuf. image, and a basic parameter:
"I need a light fixture from the attached cut sheet and image. It needs hotspots for each arm's angle and length. It needs a parameter for pendant length from the ceiling and a hotspot at the mounting point. max polygon count should be 15,000"

I didn't even need to request a 2d symbol, but I have no doubt it would edit the symbol to be whatever I need it to be given a few revised prompts.

I definitely recommend claude for GDL assistance!

object attached, for anyone curious.

Operating system used: Mac Apple Silicon

[Miles Smith]

Personally, I really like your file naming convention for this.

[Patrick M]

a bit tongue in cheek... as this took almost 0 GDL skills at all (it helped to know the terminology, like: paramater, value, array...)

[Patrick M]

it is the desktop app, but I've been told the browser interface may have some advantages. Opus 5.5 medium

[Laszlo Nagy]

Thanks. That is pretty good if a non-top-of-the-line model with Middle effort can create such useful GDL library parts. I will need to test it myself. The future looks bright for custom content creation in Archicad.

[Ricardo Heim]

Just adding up to the conversation, I'm now starting to mess with the LLM to code some GDL also and I found useful to creata a config file where you give the AI the context of who you are, what are you trying to accomplish and a set o skills to guide it to do all the things needed for a GDL script using less tokens. I'm using the deepseek 4.1 flash API with the deepseek harness as it is most cost effective here in Brazil and I'm getting good results. I told the AI to do all the configuration, creating the config file, the skills...