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PM: What is the CODE to use in GDL for plotmaker labels?

tsturm
Newcomer
I know that this has been discussed in one of these forums before. I could not find it using the search tool. I hope that someone has already done this before an knows what to use.

I have a detail box and want to use the auto numbering feature of Plotmaker. What is the command to use in the GDL script to get this done?

I looked all over the place for a part to read the code from.

TIA.
Terrence Sturm, Architect
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Anonymous
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This subject can get rather complex and there are some mind bending subtleties for certain functions, but the easy bit is...

You can include the PlotMaker auto-text as a string (plain text in quotes or in the value of a string type variable) in the same format as it is in PM.

<DRAWINGNAME> for example. (I don't know if it is case sensitive, but as I recall PM uses all caps.)
Aussie John
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Matthew wrote:
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<DRAWINGNAME> for example. (I don't know if it is case sensitive, but as I recall PM uses all caps.)
Matthew it appears it is
Cheers John
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Laszlo Nagy
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Yes, it must be all CAPS.
Check out 'Use of AUTOTEXT entities in PlotMaker' at
http://www.graphisoft.com/support/archicad/archiguide/UseofAUTOTEXTinPM.html
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tsturm
Newcomer
thanks Lazlo for the page link.

That was precisely what I was looking for.

thanks to GS for making the information available.
Terrence Sturm, Architect
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