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Hi I think this can be made by scripts and/or a Marionette Nodes. I think with getRecordField and with getObjectVariable you can pull the requested values out of a viewport, if you know their IDs. The Advantage of a Standard Label or Data Tag is, that it has a perfect Link to the viewport and a User Interface to link/delink to an object. This could be made with tricks for sure with a Marionette but without a good UI and with supporting scripts etc. So I recommend to try to make your object with the DataTag. Which I think this is all makable with the DataTag except the "arrow symbol" maybe. As Example the Viewport Scale you can pull out with the following formula in a Data-Tag: Scale: 1:#WS_ObjectData('Object Variable', 1003)# Source: https://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/Worksheet_Functions Some of the Object Variable of a Viewport (You can see them with the Methodes mentioned above): The Rest you can get from the Data-Tag Standard Variables. The Method to find Object Variables is the Script Reference or exporting a Drawing with one viewport as a text Format and search the Viewport's "SetObjectVariables". Change one value of the viewport and export again and see, what changes. Or you can use the "SearchObjectVariable" Marionette. Must be here in the forum but can't find it right know. The Data-Tag is a very powerful Drawing label. Only disadvantage is missing links between VP and Labels and no Links in Exported PDFs.

Hi You are quite near at the solution. You need to repeat every poly handle as many times as there are points on that polyline. To get the number of points you have to get the number of items in every list you created with the chunk by list node. Also here you need a node, that is not standard. I do not know to do it with standard nodes. I think chunk by list and length of sublists is something, that I is really missed by repeating things on n objects. The Node you can see GetListLength ist the standard Node but the line "this.SetListAbsorb()" is commented with a #. Different ways to solve that I think. Nice Example. ScreenFlow.mp4

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Hi The Field name of "Gesamt Breite" ist 'Width' not "Breite". If you change that, you will get the right object. If you set a name of the object, you change the name on the object info on the very buttom. Not the Cabinet Name. The Cabinet Name ist generated by a higher "act of nature" we are not able to write that Name field with a Script. Also ungroup I would not use. Because your Symbol is inserted as a PIO. The group around every marionette-created geometry you cant eliminate with the ungroup node. I think this could be changed with the node itself "linkedGeometry" This here, created the group:

As I understand, you want something like global variables for the PIOs on the Document. Like Title Block Project Data. There are several possibilities. I think it depends on what you can handle yourself. 3 Examples of Strategies: 1. You could get the values from a Record handle (the record definition itself not from an Object > It takes the default value). So you had a central control over those values. 2. You could push the values (with a Dialog) directly to the Marionette PIOs 3. Take the value from a worksheet This depends how your Marionette-Code is designed. I guess SimA - Method (Method 1?) would be the best option. To the second Methode. Maybe this is the hardest one because changing the OIP of Marionette is not as simple like with Standard PIOs. There is an Example in the Gallery to make this or you could code A dialog-Window Enter the Value and Push them on your Objects. For myself I use that method to backup values from the marionette on a record. So the script is updated I am able to pull the values if necessary from that record. Code something like this: import json #Globals recName = 'MarionetteObject3D' #recName = 'MarionetteObject2D'# Check, the Marionette Rec-Name for your Marionette PIOs fldName = 'NodeDef_OIPControls' #collect Objects objs = [] def getObj(h): objs.append(h) criteria = "(NOTINDLVP & NOTINREFDLVP & (C='MarionetteObjects'))" vs.ForEachObject(getObj, criteria) OIP_Name = 'Mauerlicht' #Name of the Parameter OIP_value = 1200 #value of the Parameter for obj in objs: sOld = vs.GetRField(obj, recName, fldName) #vs.AlrtDialog(str(sOld)) j = json.loads(sOld) for OIP_field in j['data']: name = OIP_field['varName'] if OIP_Name in name: value = OIP_field['value'] OIP_field['value'] = OIP_value vs.SetRField(obj, recName, fldName, json.dumps(j)) vs.ResetObject(obj)

Hello I posted a Marionette example, that installs a python pillow library from a wheel file with Vectorworks 2022. Now I stuck on Windows.

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Fantastic Julian this is a very reliable solution, Thank you. I implemented this way: dim = vs.FSActLayer() def GetDimAngle(h1): h2 = vs.FIn3D(h1) DimAngle = 0 while h2 != vs.Handle(0): if vs.GetTypeN(h2) == 2: BOOLEAN, style, angle, size, width, thicknessBasis, thickness, visibility = vs.GetObjBeginningMarker(h2) if style: DimAngle = round(vs.HAngle(h2),0) h2 = vs.NextObj(h2) return DimAngle DimAngle = GetDimAngle(dim) vs.AlrtDialog(str(DimAngle))

Dimension Direction.vwx Hello I am able to check if a Dimension is vertical or horizontal with direction = vs.GetObjectVariableReal(dim,value) On my mac version, it returns 0 for horizontal and 1.0 or -1.0 for vertical Dimensions. Unfortunately this seems not to work on Windows. There is always 0.0. I could test if xDiff is bigger than yDiff (of the Dimension Points) an decide it is horizontal but this can result in errors with some dimensions. Anyone has an Idea to get that information reliable?

What about this: def IsTagged(h): result = False; num = vs.GetNumAssociations(h) assH = None assKind = None value = None i = 0; while(i < num and result == False): assH, assKind, value = vs.GetAssociation(h, i); if (assKind == 37): result = True; i = i + 1; return result, assH; This would help finding Tagged Object. This was some I found in the Forum here. It works in a Marionette Object, which is inside a DataTag to find the tagged Object. So I think you could loop all Objects and check with vs.GetAssociation() type 37. Then you have the Tag and could check the Kind of Tag.