GDL-Exporter

[Anonymous]

Hi,
is there any way to create my own .gsm-files?
I've looked over the SDKs but didn't find any information about the internal file structure. The data i want to export is rather simple:

I only need to export binary 3d data and some material information to a GDL file. Is there any information about this?

There a two problems I've encountered so far:
1. How is the header/footer of the .gsm file constructed.
2. How is the binary data for "BINARY" organized

[Greg Kmethy]

Oleg wrote:

Up to version 7 of ArchiCAD, there was GDL API available, which included the GSM file format description, including binary section. Though it was incomplete and now really outdated. But, perhaps the format is not strictly closed, however I am not sure, that you will not need the special agreement on use it from GS.

We do not support third parties writing gsm file format anymore. However, we made a tool that makes gsm file format available to everyone. In the Library Developer Kit there is a tool called LP_XMLConverter, which converts XML to GSM and vice versa. So you just need to write XML files. This is the easiest way to create gsm files not using Archicad.

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