Easier Way to Create GDL Objects
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2019-03-14 07:56 AM
As a brief post script, the tertiary issue with this is that so many manufacturers make Revit files for their products, but AC has been left out from the vast majority of US products. Is this an issue for anyone else? How do we bring these objects into AC and make them beneficial? Is it even necessary? I have a Revit importer for such objects in AC now and they become the standard simple objects without any parametric settings. Ugh.

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2019-03-14 08:41 AM
Saving as an object or converting Revit objects is only going to give you a static object as you have discovered.
There is a 'Library Part Maker' add-on available to some subscription users in certain locations (UK for example but I believe some other locations as well).
But even this only creates a static object that has various options for showing different levels of detail depending on scale.
I don't really know that much about it as I don't use it.
GDL really is your best option.
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2019-03-14 02:23 PM
but of course it needs scripting not just modelling.
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2019-03-15 02:30 AM

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2019-03-15 02:39 AM
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2019-03-15 02:45 AM
It is quite old now and hasn't been updated, but the basics are all still there.
I still use it nearly 20 years on.
It is not available as a book anymore but can now be downloaded for free ...
I believe there is a slightly update version 4.0 of the book as well somewhere.
Follow the 'Useful Links' at the top of this page to the GDL Center.
There is some good info there as well.
There are others sources a s well of course.
Search +learn +GDL in the forum here and see what else you find.
Barry.
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2019-03-15 02:54 AM
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2019-03-16 07:20 PM
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2019-03-16 08:47 PM
https://gdl.graphisoft.com
Which has its own separate forum and is updated more frecuently.
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