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  1. Tiles / Verlegewerkzeug

    This tool is available in English ("Tiles") and in German ("Verlegewerkzeug"). The contents are the same only translated.
    Dieses Werkzeug ist auf Deutsch ("Verlegewerkzeug") und auf Englisch ("Tiles") verfügbar. Die Inhalte sind die gleichen; nur übersetzt.
     
    Tiles will help you when planning patterns of tiled sections, brick bonds, laying patterns, ceiling or fassade panels and evaluate it through datavisualization and  worksheet.
    For extensive information on usage of the tool, please consult the manual.
     
    Das Verlegewerkzeug hilft Ihnen in der Planung von Fliesenspiegeln, Fassadenelementen, Mauerwerksverbänden und der Auswertung als Datenvisualisierung und Tabelle.
    Für umfangreiche Informationen über die Bedienung des Werkzeugs, lesen Sie bitte die Anleitung durch.
     
    Created by / erstellt von ComputerWorks GmbH.
    Compatibility / Kompatibilität: Vectorworks 2019 +.

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  2. Rectangle Packing

    The heart of this Marionette example is the RectPack node. A node with over 2600 lines of code! 
    It supports dozens of packing algorithm to pack rectangles on another rectangular area in a space and time-saving way. 
    The right combination of packing and bin algo gives the ability to pack rectangles in a way you want to have them on your machines (as close as possible, always cut complete board, less cuts etc.)
     
    Actually not even myself know, which packing algo ist right for which use case. 
    Also for professional use case, usually there is a machine dedicated software, which packs the port in a way which match best for the machine. 
    So I see the main use case to pack parts on a board for milling them on a cnc-machine as example for model-making. Workflows which uses a guillotine-workflow (always cut the whole board) often have special requirements which maybe could be reached with the choice of packing algorithm or maybe can not. 
     
    The Marionette Example based on foundational work:
    http://www.secnot.com/   Python code for packing algorithm
    Jukka Jylang - A Thousand Ways to Pack the Bin - A Practical Approach to Two-Dimensional Rectangle Bin Packing (2010)
    Huang, E. Korf - Optimal Rectangle Packing: An Absolute Placement Approach (2013)
     
    General Features:
    - Input of basic data like length and width
    - Input of additional data
    - object input (node detects if part input are objects and process them like rectangles)
    - sort by material
    - use a list of stock materials
    ....
     
    Not all input combinations works at the moment. Recommended to use the existing examples to get correct input values.

    German Movie
    https://youtu.be/yyZGvazL7Ik
     

    938 downloads

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  3. SpacesfromList.vwx

    This Marionette Script creates multiple space objects from worksheet data.
    A very nice and time saving Marionette script to automate a routine peace of work.
     
    Please consider, that the the script takes the area column and calculate the square with that. If you have a language settings with comma instead of points for decimal seperator, the calculation will fail. Use points as decimal character or eliminate decimal places in your list
     
     
     

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  4. Apartment Tag / Wohnungsstempel

    About this File
    This tool is available in english ("Apartment Tag") and german ("Wohnungsstempel"). The contents are nearly the same just translated.
     
    This Marionette Tool summarize all Space-Areas, which are part of the same Appartement Number and shows the result in a symbol based Marionette stamp. Alternatively we can pull out sum of apartment area with a worksheet. But this Marionette is also a nice method to do this.
     
    Instructions:
    1. The Marionette Objects access to the field "11_Room ID" of the space object. Every other field can be used if necessary by editing script.
    2. With the Marionette PIOs field "ApartmentID" you can tell the stamp, which apartment should be displayed
    3. With the Checkbox "Layer from Apartment Tag". You can make the Tag collecting spaces of the tag's layer. Otherwise it will collect areas from the layer of the layer popup
    4. You can exclude Spaces with specified keywords. Delimiter for Keywords is "$"
    5. To use the Marionette PIO on the Target Document, copy/paste the PIO and then import the Symbol definitions from the Folder "ApartmentStamps" on the Target Document.
     
     
    Über diese Datei
    Dieses Werkzeug ist auf Deutsch ("Wohnungsstempel") und auf Englisch ("Apartment Tag") verfügbar. Die Inhalte sind bis auf die übersetzten Bezeichnungen nahezu gleich.
     
    Der Marionette Wohnungsstempel fasst Wohnungsflächen zusammen und zeigt diese in einem Symbolbasierten Marionette-Stempel an. Raumflächen können auch mittels Tabellen ausgezogen werden. Der Wohungsstempel ist eine komfortable alternative.

    Anleitung:
    1. Räume welche zur gleichen Wohung gehören, werden mit dem Standardfeld "Raum ID" identifiziert. Auch andere Kriterien für die Wohungszugehörigkeit können festgelegt werden, dazu muss das Script geändert werden.
    2. Im Feld "WohnungsID" wird eingestellt, welche Wohung angezeigt werden soll.
    3.  Mit der Checkbox "Ebene von Wohungsstempel" lassen sich explizit die Räume auf die Ebene des Wohungsstempels eingrenzen. Ist die Checkbox deaktiviert, gilt die Einstellung "Räume von Ebene:" 
    4. Räume mit bestimmten Namen, können hier ausgeschlossen werden. Trennung der Namen erfolgt mit "$"
    5. Um den Wohnungsstempel auf einem anderen Projekt zu verwenden, zuerst das PlugIn mit copy/paste übertragen, dann die Symbolressourcen im Ordner "Wohnungsstempel" auf das Zieldokument importieren.
     
     
     

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  5. Circular Growing and Filling

    During my last Marionette-Project, I produced some simple geometry nodes. Which maybe can be useful to can make geometrical constructions instead of mathematical (trigonometry) calculations.
    The Nodes:
    "Perpendicular from Point to Line", "Parallel from Line through Point", "Circle-Circle Intersection", "Line-Circle Intersection", "Line-Line Intersection", "2 Circle Middleline" and some more.
    Also the more Complicated Nodes "Circle tangent to 2 Circle", "Point or Circle tangent to 3 Circles"

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  6. Symbols in Rows

    Places a Marionette object, which contains symbols from a specific symbol folder. Offset and rows, can be defined. Handy for a quick and printable preview of symbols in a specific folder.

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  7. Create Site Model from Mesh

    This is a Marionette network that converts a mesh to 3D locus points. This is very useful for converting meshes of terrains imported into SketchUp from Google Earth into Vectorworks Site Models. Once you have a SketchUp mesh, import it into Vectorworks and give the mesh a name. Take the wrapper in this file and place it in the same drawing. Change the name of the mesh in the OIP of the wrapper to the name you gave the SketchUp mesh. Raising the number of the grid density will make your site model more accurate, but it might take the wrapper up to a minute or two run. When you run the script, you will get a group of 3D loci. Ungroup the loci, and keeping them selected, go to AEC -> Terrain -> Create Site Model... (in the Architect Workspace). Choose your settings and click ok

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  8. Image Processing

    This network will read the data in an image existing in your file, for example, the color of each of the pixels, and create rectangles/extrusions with the same fill color. The extrusions are created at a height correlating to their brightness. The data extracted from the image could be used in many additional ways.
     
    Please look at the different version options to locate a file for the Vectorworks version you are running. 

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  9. Marionette 101 Training Files

    Here are files that I use to do Marionette training. I thought that it would make sense to add them to the forum because they are useful in their own right, even without me talking through them. The Marionette 101 and 102 files go step by step through building Marionette networks. In both files, you can cycle through the Saved Views to see each iteration of the network and what geometry it produces. When you create a Marionette network you don't necessarily place all the nodes linearly from left to right, you build it in chunks of functionality, and the nodes that make up those chunks don't always follow from left to right like words on a page. Everybody might build their networks a little differently, but in these two networks, I show how I would solve these particular problems. The first network is a series of cubes that grow in size and that series can grow and rotate. This network has also been converted to a Marionette object and contains sliders in the final version. The second network is a series of squares that have a spectrum of colors applied to them. Because several steps of this network do not generate geometry, Saved Views have been added showing Print Debug nodes that display the values of the network.
     

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  10. IFC-Durchbruchsplanung

    Erstellt aus in Vectorworks importierten IFC- Schlitze-/Durchbruchelemente native Vectorworks Schlitze-/Durchbruchobjekte mit allen Eigenschaften und Datenbanken des originalen IFC-Elements.
     
    Informationen zur Anwendung entnehmen Sie bitte der Anleitung, die parallel zu dieser Datei als Download zur Verfügung steht.
     
    Von: ComputerWorks GmbH. In Teilen basierend auf Marionette-Nodes von DCorpataux.
    Kompatibilität: Vectorworks 2020.

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  11. creating records from txt or xls

    This Network shows how to create fields from an existing xls or txt file.
     

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  12. Halftone

    This is my first marionette and it's based on @Marissa Farrell's image processing! 
     
    It takes an image and creates a Halftone object of it with black circles:

     
    IMPROVEMENTS:
    Final objective is that I'll add cnc DXF milling information to this marionette so that it can be milled on a CNC machine.
    (We've milled Halftone parts in the past using Jason Dorie's Halftone program http://jasondorie.com/page_cnc.html)

    Result:
             

    Detail:
     
    Maybe add a line milling. The image below is milled by us in the past with Jason's program.

      Be able to change the dimensions of the final halftone image. Now it takes the pixel width and height of the image, but I would like this to be some adjustable parameters. Changing the height and width with Set Height and Set Width has no effect. Somebody has a suggestion on how to do this?

      Now the marionette looks at the color of each pixel on a grid with step "Distance between Circle Centers". Related to that color, it creates a circle with according radius on the position of that pixel: 

    The problem with this method is that that single pixel on the grid has total control on the radius and the one pixel just next to the chosen one has no relevance. A better mechanisme would be that the size of the circle is related to the average color of all the pixels in the area of the square "Distance between Circle Centers"x"Distance between Circle Centers". Anyone with some advice on handeling this? I got some little progress on it:
    Here we have 2 lists. One with all the pixels. X,Y coordinates of the pixel, Z is the radius of the circle according to the color. The other list has the X,Y values of the centers of where the final circles have to be placed. 

    Following this we need to check the distance of all the image points to the center points. If this is smaller than a condition, then that point's radius had to be taken into account for calculating the average radius of that centerpoint. Any one has a quick hint on how to create this in marionette?  
     

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  13. Panel Arrays

    In Vectorworks, there is a command that allows the user to build a surface array, i.e. to array a symbol across a NURBS surface. This is a powerful tool, but creating patterns with multiple symbols is currently missing as an option in the software. 
     
    With this in mind, these two Marionette scripts are meant to help create panel patterns on a wall with existing 3D symbols:
    ·     The wrapper “Panelization with Rotation” arrays a single symbol across a surface, but can apply a rotation to that symbol in either a user-defined pattern or randomly. 
    ·     The wrapper “Panelization with Multiple Panels” arrays multiple symbols across a surface in either a user-defined pattern or randomly.
    For both scripts, the horizontal and vertical reveals between panels can be set separately, allowing for quick visualization of multiple paneling design options.
     
    These scripts only work when the NURBS surface is flat and the face is rectangular — the symbols will not follow a curved surface. This is meant to be used for panelized walls, which are much more likely to be flat. (The surface however does not have to be vertical; it can be slanted or horizontal.)
     
    The panels are distributed from left to right, top to bottom across the surface — if the pattern does not fit exactly across the surface, there will be extra room left at the right and/or bottom edge of the surface. When paneling a wall, it is more likely that the full surface or the reveals will be resized to fit the appropriate number of panels versus trimming the panels along one side.
     

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  14. 2D to Massing Model

    This file contains a Marionette network that converts 2D polys into Massing Models. It reads the Record Format info attached to the poly and uses that information to create the Massing Model. It also transfers all attached Records to the Massing Model. This network is useful for converting shapefile data into Massing Models. To use the network, select the wrapper and make sure that all the fields in the Object Info palette correspond correctly to the objects that you want to convert. All of the info that you want to use to create the Massing Model must be in a single record, but all attached records will be transferred over by the script.
     
    Also included in the file is a worksheet that allows you to calculate Floor Usage Data for each floor of a multistory building. If you have one type of usage on the first floor, and a different type of usage on the upper floors, you can calculate that in the worksheet. (If you have more than two types of usage, it can only calculate the first two types.) To change the usage type in the worksheet, just type the name of the usage type, like "Retail" or "Residential" into the top row of one of the Area by Usage Type Columns. The lower rows will adjust appropriately.

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  15. Convert text to 3D Locus

    In French :
    Parfois un plan de mesurage ne contient que les textes des niveaux sans aucun symbole ou point 3D.  Il n'est donc pas possible de créer un terrain 3D.
    Ce script permet de créer pour l'ensemble des points des points 3D ayant pour valeur Z le texte lui même, sur une autre couche .
     
    In English :
    Sometimes a measurement plan contains only the texts of the levels without any symbol or 3D point. It is therefore not possible to create a 3D terrain.
    This script makes it possible to create 3D points for the set of points having the value Z the text itself, on another layer.

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  16. Panelization

    This file was created by Proving Ground to analyze the panelization of NURBS surfaces. Based on 3 NURBS curves, it creates a lofted surface, then converts it to a series of 3D polys. It then compares the 3D polys to the curvature of the surface at that point and states how out of plane each panel is. It also uses a color gradient to indicate where it is out of plane. It then makes a copy of the panels and lays them flat in a grid.

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  17. Component Wall from Surface

    Here is a script that converts a NURBS surface to a wall with components that can be exported to IFC. The wall is an Auto Hybrid object made up of 3D Solids that match the thicknesses and attributes of the components of a referenced wall style. CWS_1212_IFC.vwx
     
    A couple caveats: Make sure that wall style names do not  have a single or double quotation symbol in the name - it will get misinterpreted by the String Node. Also, if your base surface is an Interpolated Surface, use the tool in the 3D Power Pack - Rebuild NURBS... - to convert it to a standard NURBS surface.

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  18. Wall Component Volumes for Custom pSet

    If NetVolume of Wall components has to be written in a custom pSet (if this is a special requirement), this Network maybe provide a solution.

    Note:
    If you export Base Quantities, you get component volumes exported. Which is the normal-case to export the component quantities.

    What does the Script(s) do:
    1. The first Script creates record fields for every component Name exists in the Document (Walls have to be in the drawing, not just as a style).
    2. The Second Script gets Wall component NetVolumes and writes it in the Record attached to the Wall for every component Name.
    3. So you are able to use the Data-Manager to attach this component informations  to the Wall Body and be able to export is as a Custom pSet to ifc (if this is a requirement in a specific project)

     

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  19. Create Stories

    Creating stories, levels, and layers can be a tedious process, especially for tall, multistory projects. This wrapper allows you to automate that process based on an overall building height, typical floor heights, and default levels. You can create up to 4 Layer Levels and 2 Layerless Levels. To create fewer Levels, leave any of the Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer 3, Layer 4, Layerless Level 5, and/or Layerless Level 6 fields blank.
     
    To use this script in a new file, simply import the wrapper into the file, place it in the drawing, and run the script. The settings of the script are very similar to the levels and layers created in the Vectorworks template, but you can customize them in the OIP of the wrapper. To change the Story suffixes and Story names, double click on the wrapper and the select the Get Story Names node. There are settings that you can change in the OIP of this node as well.
     
    NOTE: Existing stories and story-associated layers that match the names of the new stories and layers will be deleted every time you run this script. Existing stories that DO NOT match the names of the new stories will not be deleted but may interfere with the creation of new stories. It is recommended that this script is run in a file without existing stories, levels, or story-associated layers.

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  20. Algorithms-Aided Design in BIM Software Webinar Files

    Here are the files used in the webinar, Algorithms-Aided Design in BIM Software. "Sample Script" is the file that was used for the full demo, and "Panelization" and "The Greyhound 2" were used as examples.

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  21. Create Multiple Shells

    This set of wrappers are good for creating multiple shells from a solid object.
    Steps: Name you solid object > set the desire thickness > spacing > run the script.

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  22. Test Proximity and Associate Existing Trees

    This file is most useful for Landmark users but could be adapted to other plugin objects (PIOs). The purpose of these scripts are to take surveys of existing trees that consist of "dumb" data - pieces of geometry and text to label trees on a survey - and convert it into Existing Trees with the relevant text data associated.
     
    The first network, "Test Proximity," runs a check to make sure that each piece of text is closest to its associated piece of geometry. This is necessary to make sure that the second script will work properly.
     
    The second network takes the center of each piece of geometry and places an Existing Tree there. It will use the saved red symbol in the Resource Manager as a template, so if you use particular default settings for your Existing Trees, you can edit the red symbol. (Some day maybe there will be an Existing Tree Style!) The network will also transfer the text data to your chosen field of the Existing Tree PIO. In this network, it is set to transfer to the Tree No data field.
     
    This network could be adapted to other PIOs if needed.

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  23. Suction Effects

    An Example which shows, how to collect objects on one or more circular area(s) and modify them. It could be use for gravity or suction effects.
     
     

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  24. Extrude & Array

    Hi just a file that may assist in the learning of Marionette.
    I have a lot of files that i feel should be out there that may assist. Hope this is the right location to place them.
    Alan

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  25. Hedge Along Path

    This Marionette Script creates a simple Hedge along a path.
     
    new Wrapper: 

    'Print Point Order' - helps you to orchestrate streams of points. 

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