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About Archicad and BIMcloud libraries, their management and migration, objects and other library parts, etc.

DNC's bendy bar tool from 7 to 8.1

I used David's bendybartool (which comes with many other great objects in his GDL Cookbook) in a project I started in 7 and am now completing on 8.1.

I used it to make rain pipes which looked very rain-pipe-like on 7 and now on 8.1 shows what look like one of the end cylinder faces. The 2D looks as it always did.

Is there anything in bendybar's code that should get modified when migrating to 8? I am very tight on a deadline and that's why I am asking this here and not privately to David (who has always been great with support, by the way).

[bendybartool makes a bent-pipe type thing by alternating CYLINDs and ELBOWs with custom lengths, bend, twist, and curvature radius set by custom array parameters.]
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Anonymous
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Ignacio,
Glad it worked.
You are right I am using feet and inches and I had forgotten
the "in Millimetres" in the parameter list. Now that you
have reminded me, what DNC did and what I did makes sense.
Thanks,
Peter
Anonymous
Not applicable
Ignacio,
Glad it worked.
You are right I am using feet and inches and I had forgotten
the "in Millimetres" in the parameter list. Now that you
have reminded me, what DNC did and what I did makes sense.
Thanks,
Peter
Why didnt you write to me direct??, you must have my email i f you have the Cookbook CD.

The current Bendybar is fully 8.1 compatible with a user interface (and the 7.0 to 8.0 version bugs discussed above fully resolved)

Using the wonderful UI_INFIELD{2} command, you can now lay out all the data for the Bendybar in the User interface in a spreadsheet like display.

>>>davidnc
Ignacio wrote:
I used David's bendybartool (which comes with many other great objects in his GDL Cookbook) in a project I started in 7 and am now completing on 8.1.

I used it to make rain pipes which looked very rain-pipe-like on 7 and now on 8.1 shows what look like one of the end cylinder faces. The 2D looks as it always did.

Is there anything in bendybar's code that should get modified when migrating to 8? I am very tight on a deadline and that's why I am asking this here and not privately to David (who has always been great with support, by the way).

[bendybartool makes a bent-pipe type thing by alternating CYLINDs and ELBOWs with custom lengths, bend, twist, and curvature radius set by custom array parameters.]