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You're absolutely right! I only looked in the ressource manager, because that's the only place I wanted cleaned. Can you add this function directly there? Maybe right-click > purge?

Hi, I'd really like to have a function in the ressource manager to remove all items from the active file that are not currently in use. Like, I load a bunch of symbols (e.g. tables) to see how they look in my scene, then I choose one. All the other tables still float around in my ressource manager window of my active file. So now I'd like to have a button (or a menu entry, or...) to remove those from the active document.

Love it! Until now, I was just to lazy to do this.. It's really a great help that you share this.

!!! I definitely see your point. I get the error every time, except when I run it by the node connected to list2!

Done Stuhl_Rohr.vwx The error doesn't occur every time I run the script, but most of the times. :-(

Hi! I tried to make qa NURBS surface in Marionette that - at first - is a rectangle. So first I used two range-nodes to calculate the x-and y-values of the control points. The z-values of the points are later changed for the single points. Then I used the Mix2 node with the cross reference setting to permutate the values. But the Mix2-node gives me the error "TypeError("'NoneType' object is not iterable")". I don't know if this is a problem using numbers as list entries or because my starting y value is 0. I attached the error message..

Sounds really nice.. I started using Marionette in November and everytime I change an existing node I think "This is something someone must have encountered before" Question by my boss: Will there be localized versions/different languages?

This is possible, but it is a bit tricky using Marionette. And I wouldn't use the If Node, I found it to be rarely helpful. In this case I would use Get Item - I made a short example with a radio button :-) Change color.vwx

Well, I had to dynamically resize a kitchen counter with 400+ singel parts, so this seemed the best way to do it :-) Working on NURBS wasn't hard, as they had get/set point methods available. For the solid part I had a hard time getting anything to work with like edges or corners. So I used the bounding box to get the geometry. With those corner points I built a poly and extruded it - I could have used a rectangle, too, but poly had this easy Add3DPoint-method.... The last thing is to add the two solids - the old object and the newly created. The big problem I see with reshaping solids is getting handles. I'd have liked to just pull the right surface, but there was no way to get there. As for changing the z-value, the workflow at te moment just isn't fit to do this as you define the reshape zones in "2D Plan".. I might look into changing 3D Polys this week as its a bit quiet here this week, but apart from this I'm not looking to much into modifying this further, I'm afraid..

What about the MouseDown command? It won't give you a preview of your symbol, but you could let the user decide where to insert the symbol that way..

I've been working on a version of this that works with 3D objects. Now I want to share my result with you. The Node works with Nurbs and general solids. But, there are further restrictions. For Nurbs, it works in +x and +y direction, but only if you have a shape that is linear in this direction - so you will want wo use it only for the x or the y direction. The part for solids only works in +x direction, though it should be fairly easy to change that to y+. But it also only works with perfectly rectangular solids - something like a brick - as I finally had to use the GetBBox method to get the dimension and position of the objects. Atm the 2D-functionality of DomCs nodes is disabled, but as I only commented it out, feel free to use it. I think I changed nothing to not work properly. And also a BIG thanks to DomC! I wouldn't be able to pull this off if he hadn't done all of the initial work. Reshape Node v2017.vwx

Hi! I have a symbol containing several general solids that I want to resize. I know I can't resize the solids, but I want to use addSolid with a new object. But I don't know where the corner points of the solids are. I already have the right handles for the objects, as GetType works, but I can't get any points - I tried GetObjectVariablePoint. Is there another way to get the points of these objects?

Thanks, Dom! Looks nice and a lot better than my code, though mine wasn't supposed to - it was just a first test. :-) So, it definitely works, but now my code also works just fine. It didn't on friday... Sometimes I sooo love programming...................

Hi! I'm trying to build an easy house in my script, but I can't get the joinWalls-command to work. Here's my code: vs.Wall(0,0,0,10) w1=vs.LNewObj() ww=vs.WallWidth(w1) vs.HMove(w1,ww/2,0) vs.Wall(0,10,10,10) w2=vs.LNewObj() vs.HMove(w2,0,-ww/2) vs.JoinWalls(w1,w2,(ww/2,10-ww/2),(ww/2,10-ww/2),2,0,1) First I had to move the walls so the edges fit. Now I can join the walls using Alt+W, but I just can't get the function to do it....Any help? Ok.. now it works.. Just used vs.JoinWalls(w1,w2,(ww/2,3),(3,10-ww/2),2,0,1) Thought I tried that one before.... Now my problem is that I can't join the last wall to the first...

Hi Alan! Thanks for looking and you enthusiasm. I think Marissa already sent me4 the node you're looking for. I already had a look at your channel and especially at this video. It is one of the reasons I think creating a house automatically is something that I should look into. Having your example file and seeing the way you engaged the problem is a huge help, thank you!

Thanks again, Marissa! Looks quite tricky. I think I'll try myself creating a join walls node next, but only for two walls at first. Will let you know how it went :-)

Thanks, Marissa! Went smoothly, apart from a bunch of errors I encountered for wrong naming of nodes inside a wrapper. I named them before and then they worked quite well, but after wrapping they went on strike. Might be worth looking into this more, imho it would be better to get an error from the start than only after wrapping. It also was interesting to see in Sarah's solution for the last exercise she paralleled the connections to a rotate Node and to a move node, and in the end there was only one object both moved and rotated. makes sense if the connections are handles and not objects, but its always interesting to see. (I had them in a row)

Trying to build a simple house from scratch as a training exercise, but I ran into the same problem. Is there a joinWalls Node somewhere or should I program my own? Also, I watched the video for Marionette changes in VW2017, and it said there is more Info coming up for the changes in changing Nodes, especially the READONLYREFFILE. Is it already anywhere around and am I just missing it?

Could you repost the files? I'd like to give it a go, too..

Thanks for the quick reply! I already changed it myself. Maybe it should also be changed in the standard library..

Just ran into the kind of the same Problem as Jeff: I'm new to Marionette and I tried to recreate the stick figure from the python examples in the developers wiki with Marionette. (http://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php/Python_Sample_Point_Object_(complex)) For this example the hair should only be drawn if the User checks a checkbox, so a boolean. But with the if-statement I get an error from my Line Node if the box is unchecked. So I tried a filter with a delete object at the false-items box. But now I get an error from the Delete object Node if the box is checked, because now it gets no input. Now I'm not really comfortable fiddling around with the if Node. So, while modifying the delete node to work without input (or None-input or 0-input) might be an option, I wanted to ask if there is another solution for this in the new version (working with VW2017). Also, as I can't see any attachment to this post, there might already be a solution, but I'd like to know it. :-)