Label reading the lenght of a line/polyline

[Djordje]

Hi guys! How's 2022?

A discussion elsewhere prompted me to check if there is a label reading the lenght of a line or a polyline. And it looks like it is not, and on top of that, you cannot ID or label a line or polyline.

Yes, there is a Travel Distance object that can be nicely reshaped and that shows its length in Imperial and metric, and can be tweaked... but that is thanks to the good will of the author of the Travel Distance object. There is also an addon at http://simpleaddon.com/Eng/td_product.html

So... more properties for the 2D elements? Lines, polylines, fills? Hm?

[Mathias Jonathan]

There is a free object based on the polyline accessory made by the french archicad user Yves (https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/14214)

You can download it on the french forum www.archi-cadlink.fr after a brief presentation.

You can perhaps ask him here if he can share it with you.

[Andre1]

In dutch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UK8ItxjE8

[k_bauschert]

For fire escape paths we have a specific object in our german special suscription library.
Anything similiar for international users?

[Sculptdesign]

How do you make the label tool show the length of the morph?

[Tim Ball]

My apologies I made a mistake and don't use a morph to create the fire escape line - I use the railing tool.

I know it seems odd but I often use the railing tool as a 3D line tool for things like drainage runs and fire escape because you can then get access to the data including the 3D line length

[kuvbur]

You can get length of the morph to property via addon - https://github.com/kuvbur/AddOn_SomeStuff

Manual - https://github.com/kuvbur/AddOn_SomeStuff/wiki/List-of-possible-commands-in-property-descriptions-(g...)

[tpike66]

Over 2 years later and nothing changed in this expensive product to allow autofill text of the length from a polyline. You can see that the polyline knows it's length (from Element Information) --but crickets from GS?