GDL: Call [User Defined]

[Lingwisyer]

Hi all,

Is there a way to Call a user defined object? Turn it into Parameter?



Ling.

[Barry Kelly]

I'm not clear on what you are trying to do here.
Normally when you call an object, you are passing parameter values to it.
It is possible to call an object in the parameter script, then if you have the same parameters in your calling object they can use all of the VALUEs from the called object.

Barry.

[Lingwisyer]

Browse loaded objects, retrieve name of selected object and save it as a parameter value.

Curiosity. Was there not an object someone had made that could be used to scale and rotate another object along a chose axis? Wonder how that worked.

[Piotr Dobrowolski]

call as parameter is done in all "custom components" like custom door leaf or so.

we can use call 2 way: call "object_name".... or call object_name, so the first can be placed a text string parameter as argument of the call.

Piotr

[Barry Kelly]

Lingwisyer wrote:
Curiosity. Was there not an object someone had made that could be used to scale and rotate another object along a chose axis? Wonder how that worked.

You mean the "Rotator" object that can be found in BIMcomponents?
It doesn't scale and you can't browse for the object name, you have to type it in (and if it is in the loaded library it will find it).

Custom components (i.e. door leaf, handle, etc) can be listed as a parameter and they are automatically found in the loaded library based on the subtype.
Maybe look a door object that calls a custom leaf.
I can't remember without investigating how they get the list of available custom components.


Barry.

[Barry Kelly]

Barry wrote:
You mean the "Rotator" object that can be found in BIMcomponents?

It is password protected unfortunately.
So you can't see the script.

Barry.

[Lingwisyer]

Barry wrote:
It doesn't scale and you can't browse for the object name, you have to type it in (and if it is in the loaded library it will find it).

Oh. Been a long time since I looked at it and I could not find it... seems like I remembered it's functionality wrong...

[Jochen Suehlo]

There once was an object made by Karl Ottenstein named Skewer, which used that functionality.
You can download it here:
http://www.opengdl.org/Default.aspx?tabid=2060&language=de-DE