Mirko Guhr

@Peter Telleman Unfortunately, a project of mine has gotten a bit out of hand, and I had to put my private hobbies on hold 🙂. Therefore, the plan is delayed a bit. However, I don’t want to leave you completely in the dark about what I have planned. As it sometimes happens, the small things are quite complex. Unfortunately, as mentioned before, I can’t make the DataTag available with code. Therefore, my current consideration is to build you a custom "DataTag". My plan is to check the selected objects and read out the required data. Then, as with the current script, a rectangle will be drawn around the objects and placed in the drawing. Also, at this position, a kind of “DataTag” will be placed that contains the information of the objects. This “DataTag” consists of individual lines of text like the normal DataTag. The lines, like the normal one, have a background that colors itself based on the curtain that the text reflects. I am already testing the individual sub-functions of the script so that I can then code the whole thing properly into a large script. It is as complicated as it sounds 😄. Therefore, I can’t promise that it will turn out as I hope in the end. It may well happen that a function doesn’t work and thus the rest of the plan fails. But I’m on it and haven’t forgotten you. However, I also think that the script as it is now (without clear assignment) doesn’t provide much added value. The risk that the wrong curtain will be hung during assembly is too great. That’s why I want to try it. I think I’ll get back to it a bit by the weekend and report back at the end of the weekend on how things are going. Best regards 👋

@Peter Telleman The former would probably apply. With my current project, I probably can’t guarantee that the order of the colors will always match. However, the project aims to ensure that the colors of the DataTag match the colors of the curtains.

@Peter Telleman If my current idea doesn’t work out, the posts would be a possible solution. But that would only be a kind of compromise if it doesn’t work. The pattern behavior of the DataTag would be the following, right? Would it also be okay if the colors don’t match the position on the truss? Because this assignment would only be correct for the horizontal truss. Here’s an example of what I mean. Would that be okay for you?

@Peter Telleman Forget my last two posts 🙂

@Peter Telleman Would it also be okay if the “orientation” doesn’t always point to the center? Here’s an example: The blue curtain is located at the bottom and right on the “blue area”. Left and top on the “red area”. Would that be okay with you?

@Peter Telleman I have fallen a good bit deeper again 😄 and I have an idea. Yes, the vertical truss idea also crossed my mind, and it doesn’t make things easier. Example: There are two stage areas separated by truss. The middle truss now has neither an outside nor an inside. Possibly even with white fabric on each side, but maybe in a different style because it’s printed or projected with a beamer. My thought would be to give each strand a fixed color. Example: inside = red middle = green outside = blue Transparent in the background. The lines in the DataTag are also colored. We could also use numbers, but they might be hard to see on larger plans. But this way, as you already mentioned, we could completely omit the inside/middle/outside assignment and just work with the colors. The rectangle color indicates which strand. The DataTag is also colored accordingly. And the curtain itself (the wave) is also visible, so I can see which style is needed. Something like that? However, it shouldn’t be a color mess 😄

@Peter Telleman That would mean that the dataTag represents the attachment points of the curtains on the truss. I don’t think I can modify the data stamp as easily as I would like. My skills aren’t quite there yet. We might also need a second script that processes the generated data stamps afterward and deletes the unnecessary lines. But that’s too far off. I can’t manage that yet 😄.

@Peter Telleman not more than 3, correct?

@Peter Telleman No, blacck was again the human error 😄. Okay, now it’s getting interesting. If only one fabric appears in the section (group), it can also be attached at different positions and should be reflected in the data Tag? Example:

@Peter Telleman Something like this could also happen under certain circumstances, right? Referring to the arrangement of the fabrics. (This was just quickly created manually)

@Peter Telleman Can you take one or two pictures of an entire truss project in top view? I currently have the problem of how the script knows what is inside and outside. My first thought was to solve it with an additional click. So, mark - run script - click where inside is - script continues. But I find that too error-prone. Therefore, I would like to create an object that is in the accessory manager. This symbol must be placed and essentially indicates the inside. When I run the script, it takes the position of this object and looks at where the individual curtains are in relation to it. This way, I can determine where inside and outside are. Whether it works exactly like this is currently only in my head. But either we have this object, or each style/color is clearly assigned to a position. But I think that’s impossible. Would this additional object be acceptable to you? The screenshots should roughly show me how the rigs are arranged. But in an emergency, you would have to move the “zero-point object.” What do you think of the idea?

@Peter Telleman Thanks for the template, I understand it better now. I’ll think about it some more. In the truss example, no trim height is specified. But you would like to have it included, right? And you label everything manually each time? That must be exhausting 😄.

lol 😁

@Peter Telleman I think it’s Version 2024, please 2023

Is the color always 100% the same? So always pink/green/black? Do you just manually change the color when the curtain is moved elsewhere? So, it can also be that a style hangs both outside and inside with different pen colors? But you also mentioned you have a few more. A few more styles or also colors?