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  1. Automatically convert groups (or other objects) into symbol

    Imagine: You have just received a file containing a large number of objects that need to be transformed into symbols.  This typically happens when I buy a file containing objects that are not symbols after import.  
    This tool transforms the objects that meet the chosen criteria into symbols in OIP  and places them in a new folder whose name you specify.
    In OIP Choose : The symbol préfix; the name for the symbol folder and the criteria configuration.
    Very handy!
    Automatically convert groups V2019.vwx

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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. Cubbies

    File that you can adjust for cubbies and learn marionette.

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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Parallel Polys

    Creates a pattern of parallel polys along the path of an input poly depending on widths and classes set by the user.
    Erzeugt ein Muster paralleler Polys entlang eines Polys in Abhängigkeit der vom Nutzer festgelegten Breiten und Klassen.
     
    By ComputerWorks GmbH.
    Compatibility: Vectorworks 2020 and higher.

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  8. Fill Spaces With Symbols

    Imagine you have client, which delivers you a room list. And a list, which objects have to be in this rooms. You can consider this lists with hundreds of rooms on your left screen and click them one by one in your rooms. You will make errors and your eyes will get squared.
    Another real interesting example how you could accelerate a routine job with a marionette script.

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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. Export SheetLayers as txt (Text-Tab)

    This Scripts help you exporting your layout structure to get an external list of your drawings if needed.
     
    Exports Sheet Name, Title, Page Size and Page Numbers. Export Folder can be selected. FileName.txt can be set in ObjectInfo of wrapper. Grey and orange nodes (Screenshot) are custom nodes. "Manipulate File" is edited (codex utf_8) to support special characters like äöüé etc.
    Note: I think Excel on Mac has issues handle the exported file's special characters (utf_8 encoding), not my fault I guess. The codex can be changed inside "Manipulate File" Node if you are not happy with the exported text encoding or find/replace on the other Software.
     

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  12. Tiles

    This tool was
    commissioned by ComputerWorks GmbH
    edited by: Markus Graf and Pascal Völz
    supervised by: Antonio Landsberger
     
    Compatibility: Vectorworks 2019 and higher.
     
    Tiles is a Marionette tool for bond pattern planning using geometric shapes (circle, poly line, polygon, rectangle) to show distribution of whole and cut tiles.
    For easier usage a wrapper node is provided.
     
    How to use:
    a) Place the geometries (rooms) in the class "Rooms".
    b) Place the arrow (in class "Direction") inside the room you want to get the tile pattern for.
    c) Change the values according to your liking.
    d) Run the wrapper node.
    e) Update table.
     
    To do:
    - update table when running script
    - implement an add-on to turn spaces into polygons (soon)
    - implement more than one bond pattern

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  13. Area Verification

    This tool was
    commissioned by ComputerWorks GmbH
    edited by: Markus Graf and Pascal Völz
    supervised by: Antonio Landsberger
     
    Compatibility: Vectorworks 2019 and higher.
     
    Area Verification is a Marionette tool used to graphicallly and tabularly verify the surface area of spaces/rooms (circle, rectangle, poly line & polygon) in the class "Rooms". To do that the Marionette network divides the areas into calculatable subareas: circles, rectangles, triangles.
    The graphical area verification using subareas is often required when applying for permits (building construction, landscaping).
     
    For easier usage a wrapper node is provided.
     
    How to use:
    a) Place the geometries (spaces/rooms) in the class "Rooms".
    b) Run the wrapper node.
    c) Update table.
     
    To do:
    - update table when running script
    - implement an add-on to turn spaces into polygons (soon)

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  14. Growing Lines

    This example is based on a custom node. which returns a line pattern. This pattern is based on several while and random loops. I have not found a proper way to run a while loop over a marionette network so this is better to create in a custom node.
     
    It is easier to play with the example, than explaining exactly how it works. 
     
    Have fun with it. This is my base study to find a workflow to project any pattern on a NURBS Surface which would be a real scope of usage.
     
    Movie Link (first Part of Movie)
    https://youtu.be/GcFwW-k5Lms?list=PL8s_WkTvFQ2YdFlMfU7Teuh5QrmsO03gW
     

    Growing Lines 1.0.0.mp4  
     
     

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  15. Bar Diagram

    A nice, small Marionette for creating bar diagrams. This is much more simpler and more flexible than a spread sheet bar diagram.
     
     
    Options:
    1. ColNames
    2. Col Values -> mandatory
    3. RefValue -> A bar with this value, has the height of the BArHeigtRefValue field
    4. BarWidth
    5. BarHeigtRefValue
    6. Invert -> A bigvalues results in small bar
     
    There is a 2 minute movie (without audio) 
    Bar Diagram.mp4

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  16. 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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  17. Image Processing

    This is based on Marissa's nodes. (The Wizard of Marionette)

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  18. Shuffle Numbers Example

    An Input of 4 different numbers. Out of that 4 values there are 40 shuffled numbers of the same values. Next value never is the same like preview value.
    This Example uses a custom "shuffle-node" (randomize input list with the option, no next value must be the same like preview value) and the "saldo-node" (returns a sum after every new value).
     

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  19. 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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  20. Hexagon Grid / Honeycombs

    Here is a wrapper for creating honeycombs.

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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. ImgProcessing-03

    Following on from Marissa's network I made a few adjustments to provide optimise the process to get reasonable results relatively quickly.

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  23. Natural color spectrum

    In this example you can find a node that returns a spectrum of colors and a Wrapper for creating random 3d Points.
    Saturation and Brightness can be changed in the OIP.
     
    Color_Range_Video.mov
     
     

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  24. 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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  25. Galloping Horse

    Just a bit of fun with one of Marissa's wonderful nodes. Just run the network.

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