Access to profiles from GDL objects!

[Anonymous]

As far as I know I cannot use the profiles defined through the profile manger in my GDL objects.
That's really too bad as it could be a great to way to make some objects really dynamic. It could be a step towards a graphic Interface to GDL.

[Ben Cohen]

you can use custom components. You can create custom components from a complex profile then bring them into your library part

[Anonymous]

Ho ho ! sounds good ! I'll look into that.

[Laszlo Nagy]

Have you tried dragging the fills from the Profile Manager Editing Window and dropping it into the 2D Script of the GDL Object?
That should generate the GDL code for the section profile.
I have not tried this, but in principle it should work.

[Anonymous]

Yes there is this method, but I'm after a way to use profiles in GDL objects that can be changed graphically, without going through using code.

[Anonymous]

I can't resist telling you an idea as it could be so simple to implement in Archicad and could give such big possibilities:

In the choices under "save as components" you could just implement a new one called "profile", which would be a GDL script with the coordinates of the 2d fill, or the slab, selected on the plan. Then it is our job to use them in our objects

Of course it would be even easier to give us a way to use in objects the stored profiles.

[Ralph Wessel]

Olivier wrote:
In the choices under "save as components" you could just implement a new one called "profile", which would be a GDL script with the coordinates of the 2d fill, or the slab, selected on the plan. Then it is our job to use them in our objects

Try the OBJECTiVE add-on. You can easily create and modify profiled GDL objects (swept, extruded, etc):

• 1) Draw a fill with the required profile and use the menu OBJECTiVE/Component/New Profile to create a new profiled object
  2) You can obtain a fill with the profile shape at any time with OBJECTiVE/Component/Extract Profile, edit the shape, and reapply it with OBJECTiVE/Component/Change Profile

Refer to the attached image. For more info, take a look at: http://www.encina.co.uk/objective.html

[Anonymous]

This Objective add on is really impressive!
It would fit my objective and a lot more. But my idea was to be able to use these profiles in my own objects, by choosing them as a parameter, and i'm not sure i can do that here.
It is so simple that it should be inside AC.
But Objective looks really great anyway, I have to try it.

[Erich]

Oliver,

Depending on just what it is you want to do, Laszlo suggestion works quite well. I use this method for trims for my doors. It only takes a few seconds to create a new profile and apply it to the door. However, you have to know GDL and you need to take some care on how you set up the part.

That said, Objective provides much greater on the fly freedom that writing GDL for a specific part.

[Karl Ottenstein]

OT ... beautiful example of proper wood grain orientation on the door panel, Erich. It is a shame that after all of these years, no Graphisoft doors/windows do this for the panels or frames and that the user has to do it him/herself.

Cheers,
Karl