DomC

This Script is made to made separate objects from geometry which is nested in PlugIns or Symbols. Those could be uses for special usecases. The Script is criteria and class based. So it would be necessary the nested geomtry is in a seperate class.

The Script uses 3 Criterias
1. (left) The Input PIOs or Symbols by a free criteria
2. (middle) The class which contains the required objects we want to extract
3. (right) The Criteria for deleting the "debris" of the scripts. Which is selectable by class of the source PIOs/Symbols and deletes everything which are groups inside of this class (it deletes not the source objects, because those are symbols or PlugIns)

This is also a possible method to ungroup things. Many ungrouping workflows do not work with Marionette, because the ungroup script command does not create handles to the resulting objects. But the group after ungrouping will be in the same class as the source objects. So using classes could be a workaround to catch the results by a second criteria. Not noble, but it works 🙂

Use is on your own risk and in a copy of your project (like always)
This Script is made for troubleshooting special requirements by resorting geometry for IFC Export.

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Updated April 19, 2021

Import pillow 2022

Unsure on which different OS and how long this will work. I just need it for myself and wanted to share, because I know some of you are waiting for external-library-fix with OSX. For my usecase the issue at the Moment seems to be fixed. Not tested with Windows or other OSX Versions. Runs on my Machine intel Mac Book with Big Sur and Vectorworks 2022 SP1.

Do not run on Windows yet.
Feedback what it does on your machines is very welcome.

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Updated October 26, 2021

Menu Command - File Info

By DomC in Marionette - Menu Commands

Show Size of the active Document

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Submitted November 23, 2018

Worksheet based Popup, push Button

Generally:
Popups significantly raises usability of Marionette Scripts. Also for advanced marionette scripters often it is hard to search and enter the values.

Situation Now:
1. The Popup values has to be written in an input node or the params class of the node, which do just execute if node is edited.
2. Popups are not dynamically unless the values are calculated by the script and then the Popup will popup every time the script is running.

What does that Node improve:
1. The popup values can be directly pulled from a worksheet.
2. The provided node filters one popup with another popup, which is very efficient for fast filtering and combine choices

Worksheet Popup.mp4

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Updated March 2, 2022

Name Popup

About This File
This Node is similar like the Name-Node. Instead of writing the Name in the Node Infos, you can select the Name from a Popup, wich maybe is a little bit more comfortable. Using the Name input is often used by myself for quick testing, debugging or Stand-alone Scripts. This node helps eliminating errors like writing the name on the wrong field or copy/paste the name on wrong place etc.

A new innovation implemented, is a visual feedback of the node, which zooms the named object while choosing it in the popup. Which is a very interesting advance to improve user friendliness of Marionette nodes.

Ideas for further improvements:
1. Checkbox if zoom or not (not sure, because to many checkboxes decreases usability)
2. A Pick option to pick an object and auto-naming and inputting with this picked object (Not implemented, because I have not got it to work, that a pick callback runs inside of a Marionette script)

Name Popup.mp4

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Updated March 15, 2022

creating records from txt or xls

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

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excel
record
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Tagged with:
- excel
- record
- fields

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Updated May 11, 2022

Record Popups

Generally:
In everyday life job is very often reading and writing record fields of user record formats
and PlugIn objects.

Situation Now:
1. Marionette users have to know the record name and need a lot of knowledge to get the universal name of PIOs
2. Marionette users needs to manually find and transfer the field names into string nodes and also have to know a
workflow to find the universal field names of PlugIns.
3. copy/paste of the names or writing the values is stressful and often results in type errors.

What does this Nodes improve:
1. Quick access to record formats, PIO records and field names
2. See the localized and universal names (if exists) of the fields, returns universal names to the script automatically
3. Can also be used in combination with "print debug" to show names for editing existing networks without using directly
the node
Record Popup.mp4

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Updated July 1, 2022

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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Updated September 12, 2022

Make Planar Nodes

Often what is missing to make usable Elements of this geometry is the fact, that
faces need to be planar to make buildable elements. Also it need to be planar to make
extrudes and other solids out of it.

The Two nodes "get Planes" and "ProjectPoints" are a step in this direction.

This example do nearly the same the existing Surface Array already can do. Except it directly
gets geometry from a subdivision object.

Anyway this has to be seen as a first step trying to model hulls with planar AND closed shapes. Which looks like a very hard task.

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Updated January 24

Page Numbering

This Document contains two Marionette PlugIns.
Those PlugIns will simplify the workflow where we have more than one page on one sheet layer.

1. Someone who uses your plans will have an advice if the document of the plan layout are complete.
2. You can see which page you have to print directly on the layout without counting the pages

This Marionettes supports Normal- and Landscape Format. Where pages are printed in a different order.

Note:
One Marionette (multi label) puts a label on every page and have to be inserted at the center (info-palette x0 y0 > please do not move).
The other Marionette (single label) can be putted freely on the layout. It returns the page number of its center point.

The Multi-Label Marionette, do not support uneven pages like 6.2/2.6

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Updated November 13, 2022

Label_From_Worksheet.vwx

More powerful, than a database or text application.
A Vectorworks integrated label-script-example with Marionette. The attached example shows how to import address data from a worksheet (could be other data and sources) and additionally places symbol beside the address. The power of Vectorworks and Marionette allows us to put everything you like dynamically on that labels. As example sort by male and female names (if possibly :-) and generate a individual pictures. Just infinite possibilities.

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worksheet
text
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- worksheet
- text
- labels
- data

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Updated March 3, 2023

Creating nice color schemes

This Marionette uses a Web-Dialog to create color schemes. The created colors can be imported as colors and textures directly in Vectorworks.

Instruction:

1. Run the Network
2. configure colors
3. Don't forget to click "save"
4. close Web Dialog, the Vectorworks fetches the created colors and creates a preview with rectangles.

Hint:
right click > Wrap Marionette Network > right click > convert to menu command

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Updated June 9, 2023

Create Record from external File

This example shows, how to create a record format with fields from an external csv or text-tab file with marionette.

This example maybe needs the following know how which is not automatically is handled by the script:

1. Save Text with excel, open office or any other application as separated text file or tab separated text file.
2. Setup the "import txt" node-popup with the needed text encoding. Try utf-8, Latin1, macLatin_2 or other encoding to handle umlauts or special character issues.
3. The Exmaple just checks the first line of the text-file and creates record fields from them
4. The path to the text-input in the attached example is related to the document path. Save first your Vectorworks document. Or use an absolute path input.
5. No warranty or charge for this script, play first on a new file or on the attached file.

I whish you success with it

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record
import
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- record
- import
- worksheet

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Updated December 16, 2023

DomC - Text and String Nodes

10 cool nodes for text and string. Replacing, separating, coloring, Dimension Text Size,

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Submitted April 25, 2017

Spaces with objects

This node sorts out all spaces which have a collision with one of the input objects. Can be used to detect, if a space contains a specific object.
For collision points, the space polygon and the object's bounding box is used. There is a OIP dim parameter for tolerance value.

The vwx contains a quick and dirty test floor plan, nothing real 🙂

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Updated May 24, 2018

Set Parent

This Node puts objects in a parent Object (symbol, group, etc.)

Inputs:
1. Handle to Object which put into a container
2. Handle Input to Parent Object (use "get Object" node to use a named container here like a symbol definition)
3. Object Info Option "Reset". Reset Bounding Box and other attributes of the parent object

Set Parent.vwx

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Updated April 27, 2018

Point Cluster.vwx

The "Point Cluster"- node detects points, which are within a given distance from other points in the same scope with an own algorithm (not python 3rd party module needed).

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Updated April 27, 2018

Concave Hull

This node gets points clockwise with a given minimum distance.
The node has an additional option in the info-palette. Follow Deadlock means, that the hull can follow back the same points that already was used as a hull point. Deadlock off means, that a point can't be uses twice as a hull point.

The Algorithm behind the node:
1. Check, which points are in range of the point most left (bounding box for speed optimization)
2. Check, which points are exactly in range of the distance value
3. Check which angle in cw direction is the smallest and connect to this point

I think there would be a speed optimization possible with normalized vectors etc. So i would call this a beta version of the node.

Computing the angles of the vectors takes a while if there are many points. in combination with the cluster node it takes about 17 seconds for 4200 points. Seven Minutes for 8800 points. So check number of clusters and numbers of points.

The Idea was, to have a workflow for vectorize an image. This is a complexe project. Maybe it is worth to check other algorhitms with existing python external modules. But so far it works quite nice.

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Updated April 27, 2018

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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Updated March 19, 2018

Parametric Metal Framework Cabinet

A Text-Script based Marionette Object.

Technical Info:
About 30 Options in the Object Info palette. And many if then combinations, which results in drawing/not drawing a part of the cabinet. I did this first with a graphical script network. But there was no possibility to NOT execute part of a graphical script because of an option.

It is just possible to execute/draw everything and then delete objects. Which results in a disadvantage of speed. So I decided to write code instead. Anyway, this is also something, marionette can be used for.

Youtube Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUmXE-3ONlE

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Updated September 16, 2017

Truss with parametric length

This Example shows, hot to have a any (complex as you want) geometry with a parametric length (available by the yards).
The Geometry was not modeled and parameterized in the script. But this is the advantage which this example shows. So take every geometry (import files etc) and just "cut" the length you need. Thats how this script works. It cuts away from a maximal part length (input as symbol) to the length you need.

You can make an own symbol and rename the symbol input of the script. The Symbol cross-section now is limited to one meter. You can edit the script and increase this if necessary.

Or look at this, with this method, you can model frame and installation plate in your script. The "fill" you can make with the method of this example script.

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Updated July 23, 2017

DomC - System Info and Action Nodes

A collection of some custom nodes for file and system actions.

1. "OpenDocFolder" --> Open a finder or explorer window. As example the folder of the open document.
2. "ListDir" --> Lists Files and Folders of a specific path.
3. "FileInfo" --> A detailed list with file infos like file size, path, permission, last edit etc.
4. "DateTime" --> Returns the actual date and time.
5. "PlayMP3" --> I nice one, which presents the potential by controlling external apps like an mp3 player etc.
6. "FetFilesInFolder" --> Returns files of a specific type (by suffix) from a specific folder
7. "DialogFolder" --> A dialow window to choose a folder

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Updated April 25, 2017

Locus with Mastersnap Point

This is an enhancement of the standard locus point, with OIP Mastersnap or not.

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Submitted May 24, 2018

DomC - Import / Export Nodes