Avanced GDL object and bills of material - list

[Anonymous]

Hi!

Problem :
I have a complex GDL object with alot of diffent pieces. I want in the calculate meny - illustrated object draw every pieces (maybe more than one picture/view of every pieces) of the objekt and put some text to everything. I only got the object in 3d in an isometric view.

Is there anyone who can give me some tips? Where do I start? Or maybe there is some free GDL objects that work like this?

Greetings
Tobias

[TomWaltz]

Do you have a sketch of what you are looking for?

[Anonymous]

No, I don't have any sketch available where I'm now. But say as an ?easy? example I have a slab with beams and chipboards above it. Now I want to draw every beam in the bills of material if they are different too each other, and how the beam should be cut. I will also put some infotext to it. The slab is the object I draw. The object does all the other thing.

Is there a way to do this in the GDL object?

Did you understand what I'm searching for? I'm not using my english daily so it could sometimes be hard to understand me.

[TomWaltz]

TurboGlider wrote:
Did you understand what I'm searching for? I'm not using my english daily so it could sometimes be hard to understand me.

That's why I asked for a sketch.

There is a lot you could do with a GDL object. For it to show up in a schedule, you would have to do all your calculation in the Parameters or Master script, then sent those to the parameter list of the object with a PARAMETERS statement.

[Frank Beister]

Have a look to the DRAWING-commands, which bring up (AFAIR) 2d/3d symbols to the lists.

[Anonymous]

Thanks alot!

But another question. I have seen a command or status in ArchiCad so I could present different drawings depending on what view I show.

Like

IF viewport = "Section/Elevation" THEN
...
...
ELSE IF viewport = "Bills of material" THEN
...
ENDIF

What command / status should I look for?

[Barry Kelly]

TurboGlider wrote:
Thanks alot!

But another question. I have seen a command or status in ArchiCad so I could present different drawings depending on what view I show.

Like

IF viewport = "Section/Elevation" THEN
...
...
ELSE IF viewport = "Bills of material" THEN
...
ENDIF

What command / status should I look for?

GLOB_CONTEXT sounds like what you are after.
Barry.

[Anonymous]

Yes, GLOB_CONTEXT it is.

[Anonymous]

I think the way we did it was to create a string for each parameter that was tripped.

For example:

IF endcut = 'square' THEN 
   endcode = '01'
ELSE
   endcode = '02'
ENDIF

idstring = width + depth + length + endcode

This way the parameters that make each piece different create a "unique" code. This unique code was used with a REF COMPONENT statement in the properties script along with an element list that generated a piece count, piece description and a 2D drawing of the piece.

If I had to explain the REF COMPONENT, AC database and listing templates over again, I'm not sure I could. It's a pretty convoluted mess in there.

[Jochen Suehlo]

This way the parameters that make each piece different create a "unique" code. This unique code was used with a REF COMPONENT statement in the properties script along with an element list that generated a piece count, piece description and a 2D drawing of the piece.

Sean, could you please give us an example of the use of the REF COMPONENT command in use to produce a piece count and piece description.