Question to Graphisoft about PARAM-O

[Algimantas Kuprenas]

PARAM-O tool was made in AC24 update 3. But is there plan that objects inside Archicad native libraries will be remade with PARAM-O tool ?

[DGSketcher]

That's for GS to decide, BUT programming in Param-O is SEVERLY limited in comparison to GDL scripting. On balance I would say no and personally I don't think Param-O has much of a future. 

[Ahmed_K]

Param-O was killed before it's birth ....

creating curved sunshades is not a HUGE thing thats make me try it, 

I already posted a thread about making paramo an assembly tool for small objects, like doors, furniture, 

A door could be an assemly of small parts : casing, leaf, handle, etc, instead of coding a door in gdl, you can model all components, no need to be parametric, if possible why not ! , then make an assembly

that would take it to another level

[Algimantas Kuprenas]

It sad that in Your opinion PARAM-O is dead thing. It would be nice to have some kind of user friendly tool for creation of objects in Archicad (something similar like in REVIT creating families). But as I see that tool should be used by Graphisoft itself, just just a fancy tool that no one uses as PARAM-O is now. Not used PARAM-O much but is it creating some sort of GDL code, or it another programing language it is build on ?

[Barry Kelly]

It creates GDL code using basic commands and a lot of GROUPS to tie everything together.

It is not what I would call particularly editable code, but you wouldn't want to edit it because I think you will lose the Param-o link and it just becomes a GDL object.

It is quite sophisticated in what it can do, and when you see complex objects made with all of the control nodes and links between those nodes it is quite amazing.

But I wouldn't say it is easy to create these complex objects easily.

You really need to know what you are doing.

I prefer straight GDL myself.

Barry.

[Martin Jules]

I’ve always wondered why Revit is often ahead of Archicad while Archicad had existed long before Revit.

[Rajesh Patil]

For me Param-O was really interesting and easy to use as not keen to go with GDL. Did some simple but useful exercises, if you get free time try my YouTube link https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLw82vkgAgA1UI7WAsmIWjIEOSrg1qbR1A

[Martin Jules]

@Rajesh Patil it seems the process is time consuming. If so, PARAM-O can't help when a project must be delivered on a timely basis. 

[Rajesh Patil]

Not really, if you know Grasshopper then Param-O is very simple and easy to use. My basic aim was to work inside single software without investing too much in other software. GS should develop Param-O further as it will really help to design different objects with less programing knowledge.