How can I select only columns that have veneer?

[Achille Pavlidis]

How can I select only columns that have a veneer?

This option is not present in the "Find and Select" criteria.

There is only Venner Patern Pen and Veneer Background Pen, but when I add either of those in the selection criteria, all columns, even those that DO NOT have veneer get selected.

Why is that?

[Erwin Edel]

Bit of a work around, but you can list veneer type in a schedule of columns and you can then select all the columns with 'core' veneer type from the schedule.

I would use element ID after that to tell them apart for easier selection.

[Anonymous]

Achille wrote:
...even those that DO NOT have veneer get selected.

Why is that?

Though the veneer feature is turned off they still have a setting for the pens. It is the setting that is searched.

[Achille Pavlidis]

Yes, but I want to have a property linked by criteria to columns that have a veneer.

There isn't a way to do this. There isn't a way to select columns that have or don't have a veneer. I think this is a limitation

[Anonymous]

Achille

Just a thought but why not let the property object do the sorting for both veneer on and veneer off column types.

[rocorona]

Anyway, in addition to the height, we can search for the sizes of the column: width, length. Why not veneer thickness, that changes these? we could search a 0 value, for columns without veneer, or any other value.
The veneer-fill-pen setting is not a solution, because the pen setting is retained also if the veneer is off.

[Achille Pavlidis]

Kristian wrote:
Achille

Just a thought but why not let the property object do the sorting for both veneer on and veneer off column types.

Kristian, that was my goal! I would very much appreciate your help to achieve this.

Here is the Property Script of the property object I have created following Eric Wilk's suggestion from his great book:

DATABASE_SET "New grafpa db"

n=REQUEST ("Name_of_fill", COLU_CORE_FILL, name_fill) 
n=REQUEST ("Name_of_fill", COLU_VENEER_FILL, name_fill)


ouv="Οπλ. Σκυροδεμα C16/20"
cod_ouv="03.03." : qua=COLU_CORE_VOL
GOSUB 100 : GOSUB 101

ouv="Οπλ. Σκυροδεμα C20/25"
cod_ouv="03.04." : qua=COLU_CORE_VOL
GOSUB 100 : GOSUB 101

ouv="Οπλ. Σκυροδεμα C25/30"
cod_ouv="03.05." : qua=COLU_CORE_VOL
GOSUB 100 : GOSUB 101

ouv="Αντικολλητη ξυλεια"
cod_ouv="10.09." : qua=COLU_CORE_VOL
GOSUB 100 : GOSUB 101

ouv="Επιχιρισμα"
cod_ouv="06.02." : qua=COLU_VENEER_SURF
GOSUB 100 : GOSUB 101


END

100:
IF name_fill=ouv THEN
REF COMPONENT cod_ouv, STRSUB(cod_ouv,1,3) , qua
ENDIF
RETURN

101:
IF name_fill=ouv THEN
REF DESCRIPTOR cod_ouv, STRSUB(cod_ouv,1,3)
ENDIF
RETURN

but it does not work...

[Anonymous]

Hi Achille

Apologies for the delay getting back to you mate!
I use the COLU_VENEER_VOL > 0 to determine if veneer is on in my own scripts.
I'll then push parameters from there in the master script for my labels.

(quick example)
rrr=REQUEST ("Name_of_fill", COLU_VENEER_FILL, name_fill)

IF COLU_VENEER_VOL > 0 THEN
PARAMETERS veneer_fill = name_fill
ENDIF

IF COLU_VENEER_VOL <= 0 THEN
PARAMETERS veneer_fill = ""
ENDIF

Hope that helps.