Warning Message

[Anonymous]

Whenever I open the 'Drawing Selection Setting' window after I had place a bldg. sect. dwg. on the layout sheet I get a warning message (please see attached). The building sections do contain couple of of custom Library Objects in addition to those that came with the AC11 Library. In some of the bldg. sect. there are multiple copies of both the custom and the AC11 Library Objects in addition to elements created through Complex Profiles

Is there a way to turn off this warning message instead of trying to hunt for this hot spot? I did try opening one of the custom Library Object but I couldn't see hot spot though I do recall using them initially during its creation. Also I am not certain what does selecting 'Stop' or Continue' radio button does.

Thanks

MAC PowerBookPro
OS 10.4.11
AC11

[Karl Ottenstein]

The RDA title object has a programming error in it by whoever created it for you. Editable hotspots must each have a unique ID.

You want to click Continue for now ... so that the script continues and generates the rest of the object. But, you want to find RDA, whoever he/she may be, and ask them to repair the object.

If it is something that is not private (you did not pay for it), then you could post just that part (in a zip file) here for one of us to correct.

Karl

[Anonymous]

Karl:
After my posting I went back to the drawing and reloaded the RDA Title. No warning message.

However if I changed the setting under 'Title' and turned off the 'Link Width to Position' or manually moved the drawing title by dragging on one of its nodes the warning message came on again.

I noticed this happens even when I select the NCS Title (default) instead and try to manually move the title.

This leads me to believe the problem lies with AC11 itself.

Welcome your thought on this.

Bala

[David Maudlin]

Bala:

Are you getting an error message that refers to the NCS Title or the RDA Drawing Title when you make this change? We might be able to help with the NCS Title, Karl has describe the limits of helping with the RDA Drawing Title.

You should add a Signature to your Profile (click the Profile button near the top of this page) with your ArchiCAD version and operating system (see mine for an example) for more accurate help in this forum.

David

[Anonymous]

David:
I am actually getting the warning message with
1) RDA Drawing Title
2) NCS Drawing Title 11' and
3) Title with Layout No. 11

This happens when I open the 'Drawing Selections Window' after I had manually dragged the title.

Frankly I am now more curious than concerned about this warning message since I can avoid this by assigning a numeric value instead to locate the title relative to the drawing.

Bala

[David Maudlin]

Bala:

Each hotspot should have a unique ID number ( unID), from the GDL Reference Guide p 117:
HOTSPOT2 x, y [, unID [, paramReference, flags][, displayParam]]
unID is the unique identifier of the hotspot in the 2D Script. Useful if you have a variable number of hotspots.

This can be accomplished several ways:
1. Give each hotspot its own hardcoded ID, for example: 1, 2, 3
2. Increase the ID by one via a formula, for example unID, unID = unID +1 for each subsequent use of the ID
3. Increment the ID, for example unID, then use unID+1, unID+2

The third method was used for the NCS Drawing Title 11 in numerous places, I suspect with the idea that each instance would be used only once in the script depending on the parameter choices.

I tried to replicate the error message with the NCS Drawing Title 11 by moving it then opening the dialog box, but could not. I have been using my own titles, so I don’t have much experience with the ones that come with ArchiCAD.

You could try opening the library parts, change the default parameters to the ones you are using, and see if you can discover the problem, but one difficulty is that you cannot move the title in this environment like you can on a layout, so you might not be able to replicate the error this way.

If you can consistently replicate the error with the ArchiCAD titles, you should submit a bug report to your reseller. As Karl said, the author of the RDA Drawing Title will need to debug that title.

HTH

David

[Anonymous]

Thanks David.