Matthew wrote:
From PlotMaker? What is the purpose? Names and addresses?
I am not questioning the value of this, I just don't know what it would be good for and am curious to find out.
Actually I wasn't thinking of just PlotMaker. The original wish by Leo in a different thread
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=5289#5289
was for custom autotext fields. I was thinking in terms of custom autotext that would be added in AC (or PM for that matter) ... but in the end, resolution of autotext happens in PM, so I suppose technically the wording of the poll is correct ... but perhaps Geoffroy might change it to just refer to autotext (unless he and I are thinking different things)?
I was imagining including all kinds of data - from simple things like more client and subcontractor information onto title sheets/etc to more 'interesting' things such as linking specification information into details - so that, for example, if an engineer changes the reinforcing schedule for a footing, or the size of a J-bolt, I would only have to edit the specification database table - and all of the detail callouts or free-flowing text blocks would instantly reflect the changed data. [Of course, being Christmas Eve, that gets me thinking of further wishes ... such as linking GDL parameter values to external database fields .... ah, sugarplums dancing in my head...
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But, without getting carried away as I so often do (!)... I think that access to external database fields would allow for richer and more flexible templates than would be possible by just adding more 'user defined' fields to the Layout Book Info screen.
Not too clear-headed at the moment ... does that make any sense?
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