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Hello Marissa: Thanks for your prompt reply... The object i'm feeding into the node is a Space object ... so, yes it does have PSets (several...) attached... The issue that i noticed here was that those Spaces were recently applied with the Space tool so their entity were IFC Standard Spaces not IFCSpaces... The curious point is that, the entity Space Standard shows several PSets (and of course... the one defined to be read by the node ...) in OIP The error message was not very clear regarding what was happening. Yes... i think that the absence of a parameter should not present an error message by the network Again tks for you suggestions and also for sending the node avoiding the error message ...

Hello Marissa and other Marionette friends When using Get IFC Pset Value node i'm getting the following error message (2018 SP3) It seems to be something internal in the Python code ... isn;t it ? Tks !

Ok... got it. Tks Marissa ! Yes... i think that in case we do have units involved we better trying creating a custom node and do things in Python instead ... right ?

Hello Marionette lovers ! Is there anyway using existing nodes to convert strings (like the ones coming from the GetIFC Pset Value ... and many others from IPFC parameters...) into a number or Integer ? Maybe the node Function could do this trick ? (but was not capable to implement this properly ...) ? Thanks for your valued inputs !

Hello folks Testing the great (and brilliant) sequence of scripts posted by @sbarrett using GeoPy... I'm using OSX 10.11.6 I could manage to install Geopy to the target inside my user folder (i used: pip install geopy -t /Users/David_PRO/Library/Application\ Support/VectorWorks/2018/Plug-ins/Marionette). And the object is correctly searching for the data of different capitals and showing correctly when changed in Object Info Address parameter... that's really awesome... However, the object for precipitation graph is showing the following error when i change the parameter "Units" to milimiters... Any hints ? Tips ? Again, fantastic examples ! Show one of the great functionalities of Marionette...

Thanks for the suggestions Pat Yes, i already approached the issue using those options ... I wondered if it might be another approach maybe... after seeing the approach @DomC adopted using NextObject in a Wrap ... but in that case the object is hidden inside the wrap...

Hello Marionette lovers ! Is there a way to use Marionette to apply a "smart behavior" to an existing object ? For example: Let's say we have a wall (already in the drawing...) and would like it to become red if it's length is higher then 5m... I know that we may create a Marionette Command that can do this by selecting the wall and running the command But what i'm trying here is to have the object automatically incorporate this characteristic ... so that, whenever the wall is re-scaled it drives the length checking script ... Something like an event driven Marionette node net .. (?) Thanks for any ideas !

Thanks everyone for the various comments, suggestions and tips ! Marissa... Yes... That would be very important to have something in the future that could address the direct creation of Spaces (considering it's importance inside BIM modeling... if there are nodes to create Walls and Slabs... that should be also ones to create spaces objects ...). Don, the usage of "Create Custom Object Path" is a great tip indeed... thanks ! Again, thanks also Alan and MaWi for helping !

Great ! Thanks for the suggestion of using "Create Custom Object Path" and also thanks for the tip of using a template and change it's parameters ... Helped a lot ! Thanks !

Thanks everyone for the replies and suggestions... Hi Marissa Yes... that's something i was also missing in VScript ... That would be very important to have something in the future that could address the direct creation of Spaces (considering it's importance inside BIM modeling...). Thanks !

Hello Marionette Enthusiasts and Experts: Is there any way to use Marionette to create Spaces in a BIM model ? I noticed that the nodes available for BIM operations are limited to Walls, Roofs, etc ... not spaces... Thanks for any ideas .... David

@Alan Woodwell Thanks for your comment ! As you know there's a tweet in the wall node code provided by @Marissa Farrell in my first post in March ... That will work fine ... What i wonder is why not incorporating that new solution to the wall node that comes with the program ? I think the evolution of the nodes is an important point to remember when releasing new versions of VW don;t you ? Or do this behavior of the wall nodes is something that is expected ? Cheers !

Hello everyone ! A few months ago (version 2017) i created a topic mentioning about the node Wall left walls unconnected when you feed a list of vertices into it's inputs. Now (in 2018) i realized that the Wall node is still presenting the same issue... I wonder if there's any form to join walls via Marionette without having to re-program the node... Thanks for any tip...

Hi Marissa... Making some experiences with walls in Marionette in 2018 i just noticed that the wall node was not adjusted with this new Py script you made here ... it's still leaving the walls unconnected when used... should we keep sending this modified script here to the customers ?

Marissa... that worked perfectly ! And this option of Join Walls in the node is just perfect ! Thanks for such a fast response ! As far as i understand, once the internal script of those nodes are adjusted... we need to forward it to the customer to adjust it inside his Wall Node (pasting the script...) ? Or can we pass along the whole node ? Thanks again !

Hello Alan: Thank you ! Yes, this new Py Script corrects the problem ( i think this is the corrected version from Marissa right) ? I think this revised script is still missing the joining of first and last wall right ? Do you happen to know if this was addressed in SP3 of 2017 ? btw: This wall creation implementation you created is awesome ! Many congrats !!

Experiencing with the use of Wall nodes with a list of 2D points i end up by getting separated walls... Am i missing (probably...) something in the network of nodes i'm using (see attach) ? How to get the walls connected with each other ?