[What are "structural" and "nonstructural"? (Section viewport merging)]

Wow. I just tested this, and turns out that ObjectVariable Boolean 702 is indeed associated with this particular thickbox.

Good to finally know the purpose of this thickbox🙂 

[What are "structural" and "nonstructural"? (Section viewport merging)]

sCrit = "((INSYMBOL & INOBJECT & INVIEWPORT & (VSEL=TRUE)))"

def  setStructuralElement(obj):
    vs.SetObjectVariableBoolean(obj, 702, True)

vs.ForEachObject(setStructuralElement, sCrit)

 

This one sets 702 True for the selected Objectsx

[Foreground Edge Rendering + Use 2D Views from Symbols]

As said in the Title it would be handy, to use 2D shapes from symbols also when Edges are rendered in foregorund rendering.

Simple an additional checkbox in the foreground-rendering settings 

[Unshaded Polygon No Lines render mode needed]

In addition to the last Post by Tobias Kern, it would be also important to set the angle when Lines are rendered, even for the Polygone mode. Or to use 2D Views from symbols to reduce size and render times.

For now the complete Polygone rendering thing is for example useless for us. If there is one object in the appropriate viewport, ist takes dozent of gigabytes in RAM and renders like 20min for one object. not useable for now, if you need to generate Polygones from 3D Objects.

[Dawing label - text wrapping not working?]

Then still ... Definitely something for the Wishlist !

[Dawing label - text wrapping not working?]

Is this case meanwhile covered with Vectorowks 2023?

What are your experiences?

[Extrudes shouldn't "remember" rotations]

Heys Guys,

I was searching for a topic like. Found this one and an older one:

 

In my understanding the problem is the following:

First you create a shape. This shape has its own working plane so you always can easly edit it in top view even if it's not perpendicular to the ground plane. You then create an extrude from the shape(In this step the 2D Geometrie gets extruded from the groundplane up or down and then 3D rotated so it matches your current view/orientation of your 2D shape)

 

Everytime you rotate the extrude, its attached shape and working plane gets rotated too.

Those blue "normal" reshape handles you only get if your actual view it perpendicular to the working plane of the shape.

--> I believe this is necessary cause Vectorworks dont know how to reshape the 2D Geomentrie if your current view is perspectively distorted.

 

If you mirror the extrude you can only edit the shape on the originally groundplane und the outside is also unavailible. 

--> Maybe technicly not solved to far

 

Would there be also blue handles if the current view is in the same direction(not rotation this seems hard to do) as the workingplane of the shape or mirroring an extrude would mirror the shape instead of the 3D Object this would already help a lot !

[How to get the (data) tagged object?]

This one, used while in Annotations, uses the selexted Datatag and jumps to the tagged Object in yours Model and select it.

import vs;
objs = []
def Name(h):
	hLayerObj = vs.GetLayer(h)
	hLayerAct = vs.ActLayer()
	vs.AlrtDialog(vs.GetName(h))
	hAss, iAssKind, iAssVal = vs.GetAssociation(h, 0)
	if hAss != 0:
		objs.append(hAss)


vs.ForEachObject(Name, "((INSYMBOL & INOBJECT & INVIEWPORT & (VSEL=TRUE)))")


if len(objs) == 1:
	hLayObjs1 = vs.GetLayer(objs[0])
	vs.DoMenuTextByName('Group Navigation Chunk', 2)	#Verlasse Ergänzungen
	vs.Layer(vs.GetLName(hLayObjs1))					#Wechsel Ebene
	vs.SetPref(94, True)								#Aktuivere Modellansicht
	vs.SetPref(14, True)								#Zeige Objekte auerhalb Gruppe
	vs.DSelectAll()

	for x in objs:
		hParObj = vs.GetParent(x)
		iTypParObj = vs.GetTypeN(hParObj)
	
		if iTypParObj == 11:
			vs.SetSelect(hParObj)
			vs.DoMenuTextByName('Group Navigation Chunk', 1)
		if iTypParObj == 15:
			vs.SetSelect(hParObj)
			vs.DoMenuTextByName('Group Navigation Chunk', 1)
		
		vs.SetSelect(x)
		vs.DoMenuTextByName ('Fit To Objects', 0)

 

Hope this one is helpful. Have fun,

Heiko Jakob

[Preserve folder hierarchy missing]

PUSH

Or importing symbols per double click instead of drag and drop

[Materials in Marionette?]

Hi Peter 

try this one attached. Called node "Mat select" in resource manager

 

Geëxporteerd bestand Marionette extended.vwx

[Symbol path via Vectorscript]

On 2/24/2015 at 8:45 AM, Hippocode said:

What I ment is that you can only retrieve the name of these resources IF they come from external files. There is no way to retrieve the filename or the symbol folder. When the resource is from the active file you can get the symbol folder.

HI,

is this still the case or is it possible in the meanwhile?

 

 

[Get Texture Index PopUpMenu]

Hi,

i think i got a solution. I modified the "Symbol From Folder" Script by @Antonio Landsberger  to work with Materials.

In my case now Materials keep the same even new ones get imported. 

Does it work for everyone else too ?

File is attached🙂

@Marionette.NodeDefinition
class Params(metaclass = Marionette.OrderedClass):
#APPEARANCE
	#Name
	this = Marionette.Node( 'Materialauswahl' )
	this.SetDescription( "Returns the name of a symbol chosen via selection dialog with previews of the symbols in the current document. If a folder name is given, only its content is shown." )	

	#OIP Controls
	# Holds the selected symbol name
	
	SymbolName = Marionette.OIPControl( 'Material', Marionette.WidgetType.TextStaticParam, '<None>')
	SymbolName.SetDescription( "Shows a dialog, where a symbold can be selected." ) 
	
	
	Int = Marionette.OIPControl( 'Material ändern', Marionette.WidgetType.Button, 'script1', 'description')
	Int.SetDescription( "Shows symbol selection dialog" ) 
	
	
	
	#Output Ports
	out = Marionette.PortOut( 'sMat' )   
	out.SetDescription( "Name of the chosen symbol" )
	
#BEHAVIOR

#END class

def RunNode(self):	
	sym = self.Params.SymbolName.value

	#outputs
	self.Params.out.value = sym
	
#END def RunNode
	
def script1(self):
	self.Params.out.blocked = True

	def SymbolSelDialog( showall ):

		SetupDialogC	= 12255	 # Dialog open event ID
		CloseDialogC	= 12256	 # Dialog close event ID

		# alignment constants
		kRight		= 1
		kBottom		= 2
		kLeft		= 3
		kColumn		= 4
		kResize		= 0
		kShift		= 1

		# default and cancel button IDs
		kOK			= 1
		kCancel		= 2

		# control IDs
		kSymPopup	= 4

		def DialogHandler( item, data ):
			# setup of the dialog content ...
			if ( item == SetupDialogC ):
				resourceListID, numItems = vs.BuildResourceList( 97, 0, '' )
				if showall:		# show all symbols
					for cnt in range( numItems + 1 ):
						int = vs.InsertImagePopupResource( dialog, kSymPopup, resourceListID, cnt )
					#END for	
				else:			# show only symbols in user defined symbol folder
					for cnt in range( numItems + 1 ):
						tempStr = vs.GetNameFromResourceList( resourceListID, cnt )
						objH	= vs.GetObject( tempStr )
						parentH = vs.GetParent( objH )
						if ( objH != None ) :
							int = vs.InsertImagePopupResource( dialog, kSymPopup, resourceListID, cnt )
					#END for
				#END if
		
			elif ( item == kOK ):
				objIndex = vs.GetImagePopupSelectedItem( dialog, kSymPopup )
				objName  = vs.GetImagePopupObject( dialog, kSymPopup, objIndex )
				
				# Write the selected symbol to the OIP control for script usage
				self.Params.SymbolName.SetValue( objName )
			
			#END if
		#END def DialogHandler()

		dialog = vs.CreateLayout( 'Dialog', True, 'OK', 'Cancel' )

		# create controls
		vs.CreateThumbnailPopup( dialog, kSymPopup )

		# set relations
		vs.SetFirstLayoutItem( dialog, kSymPopup )

		if ( vs.RunLayoutDialog( dialog, DialogHandler ) == 1 ):
			pass

	#END def SymbolSelDialog()
	
	SymbolListID, numSymItems = vs.BuildResourceList( 97, 0, '' ) #make list of all symbols
	#-- if there are no symbols at all, show error message and abort --
	if ( numSymItems == 0 ):
			vs.AlertCritical( "There are no Materials in this document. Please add some and try again." )

	elif (numSymItems > 0):
		SymbolSelDialog( True ) #show all Materials	
		

 

 

randomized Texture Fix Try 1.vwx

[Get Texture Index PopUpMenu]

Hi,

 

is there in the meanwhile a good solution for the GetTexture problem where previously selected Textures where locked to the index of the PopupList not the Name/ID of the texture itself ?

 

In the end the applied textures got kind of randomizes as soon as new materials got imported in the file and sorted near enough at the top of the list to affect the indexing of the list

 

Is there a good solution for that ?

 

See here:

 

 

 

 

JH

[Symbol Insertion - Preserve Folder Hierarchy]

nearly 8 years later and still a major missing feature.😤
Since then they revised the resource Browser but missed that feature AGAIN !

 

[Preserve folder hierarchy missing]

Is there already a solution to this ?

Because there are situations where no dialog appears e.g. importing predifinied wallstyles incl. texture and co. by using the wall wool. 😞