ASAP help about tensile roof GDL.

[Anonymous]

today i create a tensile roof with the basic shape lib. and at the beginning, it was all right, then i dont know what i did the tensile roof become the wireframe in 3D window and even i render or change the 3d-view to any mode, it is all like this, just has black line wireframe, even rebot the laptop, it is still no working.

does anyone know how to fix it or is it a bug?

thanks

my name is Steven, and a 3rd year student in Australia

Attachment is showing what is hapening...
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[Anonymous]

doing it now,,,,,and i just found mesh 3d is better to use, thanks~

[David Maudlin]

Taking a quick look at the 3D Script, I can only find lines there, so there are no solid parts. I don't know how they generated the Preview image.

for p = 1 to 21 step 5
for o = 0 to 3
line p+o, p+o+1
next o
next p
for p = 1 to 20
line p, p+5
next p
for p = 1 to 16 step 5
for o = 0 to 3
tri p+o,p+o+1,p+o+5
tri p+o+1,p+o+5,p+o+6
next o
next p
return

David

[Anonymous]

David wrote:
Taking a quick look at the 3D Script, I can only find lines there, so there are no solid parts. I don't know how they generated the Preview image.
David

David, it shows a surface only on old versions. Works for me until 11, not after.
This is a prehistoric part using obsolete keywords (AC 4 or 5, may be).

You have to replace some of these keywords
NODE -> VERT
LINE -> EDGE
TRI -> PGON

Yes, a bit like ancestors of GDL primitives.
Unfortunately, tiangulation EDGEs are not defined, and thus, PGON can not work. Frustrating.

I could fix the part, if I had some interest to do, but sorry, no time for this. I let GS do THEIR job.
Notice that COONS tool could be a better alternative to GDL primitives.

Once again, GS scripts are a mess, due to the lack of STRUCTURATION. I had to do some clean up.
Sorry to start this new year with a rant.

GS, shame on you.

[ztaskai]

Olivier wrote:
David, it shows a surface only on old versions. Works for me until 11, not after.
This is a prehistoric part using obsolete keywords (AC 4 or 5, may be).

...

GS, shame on you.

Olivier has the point.

There is some problem in the 3D engine of AC12 with these prehistoric commands. Since I have no direct effect on the fixing of those, I re-wrote the object using the new equivalent commands for the next update. All languages will get it in their next library update.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
Zsolt

[Anonymous]

I got it. Attached, a fixed part.

It would be simple to use Special Menu feature "Place all Library Parts",
to avoid bad surprises, before each new release.

[Erika Epstein]

Thank you Olivier.

[Anonymous]

Erika wrote:
Thank you Olivier.

Hi Erika,

First, I rant (tipically frenchie), but at the end I try to finish the work. 😉
Greetings to you, it's still time.