MACROS

[Conrado Dominguez]

I created several Library parts and save them as Macros.

With the use of these Macros, I placed them in my drawing, related to each other (heigth,layer,etc) and then created a New Library part.

To avoid the clutter of .gsm files in this particular folder, I created a sub-folder, where I moved the Macros.

Later, when I try to place the Library Part (the one with the combined Macros) I received the messages that the Macros could not be found.
My question is: Once the Macros are combined for further use,do they have to remain in the same place? How does a CALL function in the Library Part Script, points to the location of a given Macro?

I hope this is clear enough to get some help here.

Conrado Dominguez

[James Murray]

Olivier wrote:
[:idea:]

Good find.

[Anonymous]

ztaskai wrote:
Thanks for the reminder. The 128 mask bit description is available in the on-line GDL manual: http://www.graphisoft.com/ftp/gdl/manual/12

It will be there in the AC13 version, too.

Regards,
Zsolt

Zsolt,

Thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

I've read this thread a couple times and it made me curious. What is the difference between a library part and a macro? What are the advantages of one over the other?

[Erich]

Wrathchild,

In simple terms (the only ones I know ':?') a macro is a GDL object, placeable or not, called during the creation of another object. For instance, I have a cabinet object that calls for a separate sink object. In this case both are individually placeable. If you take a look at an AC marker, you will see that the part primarily contains at call to another part, not placeable this time, that does some of the work. This second part itself has calls to yet other macros, etc. The big advantage here is that you can write a chunk of code once and then use it in multiple different objects.

HTH