Door Opening line in 3D points towards hinge side, right?

[Anonymous]

Archicad 9,

My opening lines on doors in 3d are showing up pointing towards the door handle.

This is backwards from the convenition i know, how do I change it so it points the other direction.

(i have a bad memory, but I don't remember this being an issue in Archicad 5 thru

-Nathan Brauer

[David Bearss]

Dan wrote:

Nathan wrote:
Archicad 9,
My opening lines on doors in 3d are showing up pointing towards the door handle.
This is backwards from the convenition i know, how do I change it so it points the other direction.

Nathan and all,
I have fixed this problem on my doors by unpacking the ArchiCAD 9 library and making a simple edit to the "da_oplines_81.gsm" 3d script.

In the 3d script of this object comment out the first 2 transformation statements to look like the following:
!!!ADDX a
!!!MULX -1
Save the object and now all of your doors that call this macro will point to the hinge.

I know this is an old thread but I was really hoping this small adventure into GDL would fix this for me. I tried the above modification to da_oplines_81 macro however when I check script I get an error:
Cannot DEL transformation above TOP at line 80 of file da_oplines_81.

I am paging through GDL Cookbook but nothing is jumping out at me.
Any Recomendations??

[TomWaltz]

Since you removed two cursor transformation statements, you will need to decrease the number next to the DEL statement by 2 as well.

[Anonymous]

David,
At the bottom of the 3D script of the macro da_oplines_81
at the line just above the line that reads IF gs_door_pos=2 THEN DEL 2,
put exclamation points before the DEL 2 statement as shown.

!!!DEL 2
IF gs_door_pos=2 THEN DEL 2

Peter Devlin

[David Bearss]

Thanks Tom,
Might be leading the blind and ignorant here. I got it to work though. Thanks!! now all doors and windows too as soon as I make the revisions, will indicate proper opening lines.

Such a simple solution by tweaking the GDL a bit. Little victories like this help me venture into GDL more often.