Basic GDL

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I am working on learning some basic GDL skills and had a question. I would like to edit the existing IE Marker to look more like our office specific markers. The triangular marker that comes with Archicad is close but I would like to stretch the bottom corners of the triangle to flatten it out a bit. see attached. I've been able to get in and play around with the object but can't seem to find a way to stretch it. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance

[Erich]

jorgec,

You will need to save the macro as a separate file as well as the file for the marker that you initially opened. In that newly saved version of the initial file, you will need to change the call to refer to your altered macro.

[Anonymous]

Erich,

It worked . I just need to fudge with it a little bit to make it perfect.

Thanks for all the help.

[Anonymous]

I got it too. It confused me at first, but then I realized "AC_Markersize" is the paramater you use to define the scale of the marker, so you just change the multipliers to change the size.

While you're in there, you can look for the line "Separator " "" (the one with space between the qoutes) and insert a /. This will give you "DrgID/LayID"

[Anonymous]

Nice, I will try that. I am now looking to see if I can place the text below the marker rather than next to it. For some reason when I place the marker the symbol does not point in the right direction.

I'm getting there though.

[Anonymous]

For me it was at line 188, and you want the one after the else statement.

[Anonymous]

that worked. now I just need to resolve the location of the text and how to get it to place properly.

[Anonymous]

You don't need to. Go ahead and place it in the drawing and use the hotpoints to move it to the appropriate location (centered on the bottom of the marker). Now eyedrop it. Now whatever the orientation, the text will always appear in that location when you draw a new marker.

[Anonymous]

Thanks. that will work.