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Eric B · 2023-10-11

Hi everyone I am using the following code to determine the size of the page so I can show the page size along with the scale in our drawing title sheetSize = "A1" if AC_LayoutRect[3] < 841 then sheetSize = "A1" endif if AC_LayoutRect[3] < 594 then sh...

Eric B · 2023-09-04

Good afternoon all If I have a DrawingGUID is there a way I use it in GDL to get information like the DrawingID and DrawingName?? Many thanksEric

Eric B · 2023-08-01

Hi all I believe I have messed up something really simple with the attached object When I move or stretch it in the 3D window the object reference moves back as though the addz and addy have been removed(see the attached screenshot) Any suggestions a...

Eric B · 2023-07-04

Good morning One other quick question with the drawing title I am creating Can I get the DrawingID of the source drawing when back referencing? For instance a detail (Drawing ID 1) is on sheet 5-03 and it is referenced from a floor plan (drawing ID 1...

Eric B · 2023-07-03

Good evening Apologies if this has been asked before but I could not find anything relating to this How can you read an autotext value into a variable in GDL I would like to be able to do the following and read the first two characters of the Master ...

Eric B · 2023-10-18

You are 100% correct I have a mul2 to convert all the code to mm but it was after the if statements and of course because the array was storing the dimensions in mm I didn't give it another thought Thanks for you help with this as I had been looking ...

Eric B · 2023-10-15

I have looked into this further If I just output the contents of AC_LayoutRect[3] of an A2 sheet of paper I get a value of 567.2All the if statements will be evaluated but it will still enter the A3 if statement If I change the coding and hard code t...

Eric B · 2023-10-11

Apologies - yes I've done that An A2 returns 562.5 which is why I am stumped as to why it still enters the third if statement

Eric B · 2023-10-11

That will output the right hand bottom corner of the sheet I am trying to use that to create a crude switch statement so it will output A1, A2 or A3 as the sheet size

Eric B · 2023-08-04

So one last question Have got everything drawing and working correctly but it appears that instead of it showing a 'ghost' height it has moved it to the width of the object Is there similar code to fix that or have I messed it up in some other way Ch...

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