Having fun with ChatGPT

[Jayme McColgan]

i was bored on a show so i decided to ask the ChatGPT from OpenAI to "build a python Vectorworks plugin that horizontally distributes all the selected items evenly" and this is what it spit out. interesting.  

 

# Import the Vectorworks Python API
import Vectorworks as vw

# Import the VWObjects module
from Vectorworks.VWObjects import *

# Define the plug-in class
class CExamplePlugin:

  # Called when the plug-in is loaded
  def Load(self):
    # Get the selected objects
    selectedObjects = vw.selection.GetAllObjects()

    # Calculate the total width of the selected objects
    totalWidth = 0
    for obj in selectedObjects:
      bounds = obj.GetBounds()
      totalWidth += bounds.GetRight() - bounds.GetLeft()

    # Calculate the space between the objects
    space = (totalWidth / len(selectedObjects)) - totalWidth

    # Distribute the objects horizontally
    for obj in selectedObjects:
      bounds = obj.GetBounds()
      obj.SetBounds(bounds.GetLeft() + space, bounds.GetTop(), bounds.GetRight() + space, bounds.GetBottom())

  # Called when the plug-in is unloaded
  def Unload(self):
    # Clean up resources here
    pass

# Create an instance of the plug-in class
plugIn = CExamplePlugin()

 

[JBenghiat]

If only those calls were actually in the VW Python api…

[elepp]

It's crazy what ChatGPT can do. I saw someone ask it to write an ifc file with a cube inside. And it worked! 😲

[Jayme McColgan]

yeah I'm not sure where it pulled these endpoints from. is there another "external" API for vectorworks? 

[JBenghiat]

On 12/9/2022 at 8:42 AM, Jayme McColgan said:

yeah I'm not sure where it pulled these endpoints from. is there another "external" API for vectorworks? 

There's an SDK for c++, which the bot seems to be adapting. VWObjects is a class, but GetAllObjects() isn't in either the SDK or the Python/VS API. GetBounds() is not an actual method, though GetObjectBounds() is, which returns an object with GetLeft() etc. The logic of the AI-generated script is actually sound, but it's almost as though it wrote what *should* be the API first. 🙂

[elepp]

On 1/2/2023 at 4:26 AM, JBenghiat said:

The logic of the AI-generated script is actually sound, but it's almost as though it wrote what *should* be the API first. 

Seems like it's a general thing for chatgpt. Found this on reddit about chatgpt and dynamo/revit:

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It's a bit rubbish. Too little learning on the API for it to function well. Had a good laugh the other day when someone posted some AI python code on the Dynamo forums that was way off track from what they asked it to do, invented its own API calls that don't exist, left out necessary inputs on actual API calls.