A "Smart" roof label

[Anonymous]

I've searched this forum and can't find anything.

I want to make/get a label object that can be used in the following manner:

Click on a roof then click on the desired location for the label. The label needs to display the rise and run of the 'clicked on' roof.

Is this possible? and How?

[Aussie John]

Joseph, I think it is working here

[Anonymous]

Aussie wrote:
Joseph, I think it is working here

Thanks for checking,
I downloaded it again and put it in my loaded Library folder and still it does not show up in Label Settings. Should I go through any other steps?
Thanks,
Joseph

[Anonymous]

Sorry,
I had forgotten that it is an Object Library part!
But now that I place it as an object on a roof with the Roof Gravity on it gives me 0:12 slope. For some reason it does not pick the slope. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Joseph

[Anonymous]

Joseph,
It's a roof accessory.
Select the roof, go to extras/roof accessories, select it,
and it appears in the plan
Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

Joseph,
It occurs to me you may have the library part in the wrong folder.
It should be in object library/add-on library/accessories library/
roof accessories.
Peter Devlin

[Aussie John]

Joseph wrote:

Aussie wrote:
Joseph, I think it is working here

Thanks for checking,
I downloaded it again and put it in my loaded Library folder and still it does not show up in Label Settings. Should I go through any other steps?
Thanks,
Joseph

As Peter says its not an object nor is it a label but a roof accessory. It doesnt need to be in a specific folder.

[Anonymous]

John,
You say that "it does not have to be in a specific folder."
I just did an experiment because your statement made me think
that I had acquired an erroneous AC superstition.
I took the "RoofSlope_accessory" and put it in the Markers folder.
Then I selected the roof and went to roof accessories and
the accessory was not there but it was in the object tool browser
inside the markers folder and it behaved as Joseph has described.
I put the accessory back into roof accessories and re-loaded libraries
and it worked again.
I am puzzled. How can you get it to function or show up as a roof
accessory if it is in another folder ?
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

[Barry Kelly]

Peter wrote:
John,
You say that "it does not have to be in a specific folder."
I just did an experiment because your statement made me think
that I had acquired an erroneous AC superstition.
I took the "RoofSlope_accessory" and put it in the Markers folder.
Then I selected the roof and went to roof accessories and
the accessory was not there but it was in the object tool browser
inside the markers folder and it behaved as Joseph has described.
I put the accessory back into roof accessories and re-loaded libraries
and it worked again.
I am puzzled. How can you get it to function or show up as a roof
accessory if it is in another folder ?
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

If I may chime in here.
If the object sub-type is set as "Roof (Accessory)" then it will appear as both an object you can place as normal with the object tool and also as an object when using the EXTRAS > ACCESSORIES... menu.
Using EXTRAS > ACCESSORIES.... you should see the entire library but only the hierachy of folders that contain "Accessory" sub-types.
These can be placed anywhere in the library - you just need to know where to go looking for them.

Barry.

[Aussie John]

Peter wrote:
John,
You say that "it does not have to be in a specific folder."
I just did an experiment because your statement made me think
that I had acquired an erroneous AC superstition.
I took the "RoofSlope_accessory" and put it in the Markers folder.
Then I selected the roof and went to roof accessories and
the accessory was not there but it was in the object tool browser
inside the markers folder and it behaved as Joseph has described.
I put the accessory back into roof accessories and re-loaded libraries
and it worked again.
I am puzzled. How can you get it to function or show up as a roof
accessory if it is in another folder ?
Thank you,
Peter Devlin

Peter I can put the accessory any where and "Archicad" finds it when I open up the roof accessory

[Anonymous]

Barry wrote:
If I may chime in here.
If the object sub-type is set as "Roof (Accessory)" then it will appear as both an object you can place as normal with the object tool and also as an object when using the EXTRAS > ACCESSORIES... menu.
Using EXTRAS > ACCESSORIES.... you should see the entire library but only the hierachy of folders that contain "Accessory" sub-types.
These can be placed anywhere in the library - you just need to know where to go looking for them.

Barry.

Thanks, you are all great for sharing so much know how. This is why AC is so great!
Thanks,
Joseph