Plug-in Object in Page units.

[michaelk]

Is it possible to make a plug-in object be in page units?  I assume there must be a SetObjectVariableBoolean(ObjHd,XXX,TRUE); that does this.  But I'm not finding it.

[Pat Stanford]

ObjectVariableBoolean(130, Hand); sets a Symbol to be Page Based.

 

Not sure if it would work with a PIO or not.

 

[michaelk]

That's what I tried!  No luck.  Maybe I could just do the math 😜

[Pat Stanford]

Based on the 2025 Help, it looks like only Symbols can be page based.  

Concept: Vectorworks symbols talks about the different kinds of symbols and also PIOs, but there is no mention of Page Based PIOs and I don't see an option in the PIug In Editor to set a PIO as page based.

 

So yes, you the math major are likely going to have to do the math. 😉

 

[Sam Jones]

What do you want this PIO to do?

[michaelk]

I'm trying to make a label element that will print the same size no matter what the scale of viewport.

 

It's not really that important to the plug-in.  I just thought it must be possible.  Sort of the way the Grid Line bubbles are always the same size no matter what the scale of the viewport.  

[klinzey]

On 12/27/2024 at 2:17 PM, michaelk said:

That's what I tried!  No luck.  Maybe I could just do the math 😜

To make a PIO paged based you have to to the math to scale the geometry that is drawn based on the layer scale of the PIO.
There is no magic option to make a PIO automatically use page based units.