Is it possible to get a handle to the selected object?
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2010-11-14 11:58 PM
Then I need to know how to obtain the element that is selected, so I can get the information I need about the wall.
I would be very grateful if there are someone out here that can tell me how to solve this problem.
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2010-11-16 11:55 PM
But are there a possibility to implement 'magic wand' functionality in my objects as is in walls and beams?

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2010-11-17 01:45 PM
Also, you ask about Magic Wand with Objects? What do you mean by that? Do you mean that you click on a Wall or polyline and a library part is created based on the polyline clicked? Or the outline of an object is clicked and another Wall or Slab is created based on that polyline?
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2010-11-17 03:08 PM
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2010-11-17 03:18 PM
If I make a slab, select it, click a wall-element. Go back to the selected slab, press spacebar as I click the selected slab, then walls are put around the slab. (I can also select a wall and put a beam around in the same way.)
I have made an object that looks like a ceramic tile. I thought it would have been so much more easy to use it if I could just select the wall and then my object (ceramic tile), press spacebar and click the wall.
And then the tiles would be put neatly on the wall, around windows, doors a.s.o. That's my dream (for the time beeing

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2010-11-17 03:37 PM
I believe some of the Room Accessories solutions are doing something similar but I think that is done using the API.
The API gets the geometry of the Walls/Slabs and generated the objects.
So you would have to get into programming the API, I believe.
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2010-11-17 05:11 PM

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2010-11-18 03:42 PM
You can download the Developer kit and start studying it.
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/developer/
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2010-11-18 04:52 PM
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2010-11-19 05:11 AM
Cigraph do an ArchiTiles plugin - here - Video here
A solution by Australian company 4DLibrary called 'Wall Tiles 4D' seems a clever technique with nice control around openings. Video on youtube here.
There may be other commercial solutions out there.
I have even used the curtainwall tool with all the frames set to invisible, and zero thickness with mixed success. It tends to be a bit heavy on the polygons, and awkward to fit around openings (as you can't currently put holes in the scheme of a curtainwall - you have to make a 'd' or a 'p' shape connected to an edge) but it may be useful to try!
Hope that helps!