Storey Number

[Anonymous]

is their any way of reading the storey number that an object is placed on

[__archiben]

damien wrote:
is their any way of reading the storey number that an object is placed on

according to the GDL reference manual:

REQUEST ("Story", "", index, story_name)

... but i'm not so flash with my GDL knowledge so wouldn't know how to implement it . . .

HTH
~/archiben

[Anonymous]

thanks

but i was looking to control number rather than the name so that i could choose which stories to show a particular object on say storey 2-5 excluding storey 1 and below

[Ben Cohen]

Hi Damien

Index is story number

[Anonymous]

This may be what you can use.

GLOB_CH_STORY_DIST
Old name: S~
Type: numerical (integer value)
Possible range: positive or negative or zero.
Returns a number giving the relative position of the current story to the home story of the Library Part. The value of the variable is calculated by deducting the story number of the home story from the story number of the current story. Since there is no story-related information in the 3D Window, there the variable does not return a valid value.

This is from "Global GDL Parameters General Global Variables"
Written by László Nagy

Peter Devlin

[Anonymous]

thanks all should be ok from here
thanks again

[Andy Thomson]

A somewhat related question, I am trying to make a library part to represent switches and light fixtures, that are 'smart' enough to know (and display) their height relative to current story (not project zero or reference levels). I can't think of something similar to ape the code from - can someone suggest such an object, or how to do this?

[Frank Beister]

Have you tried GLOB_ELEVATION?

[Anonymous]

Would the "Show Element Information" Palette work for you? It will list the items home storey among other things.

[Anonymous]

andyro wrote:
A somewhat related question, I am trying to make a library part to represent switches and light fixtures, that are 'smart' enough to know (and display) their height relative to current story (not project zero or reference levels). I can't think of something similar to ape the code from - can someone suggest such an object, or how to do this?

Andyro,
try SYMB_POS_Z-GLOB_HSTORY_ELEV

Below is an image of an electrical library I was working on quite sometime ago. All the objects have an option to display height...they also show a basic faceplate at the appropriate height in 3d.

HTH
Dan K