Insert symbol by size

[Mr. Minus]

I am trying to make a Marionette network that can build a stage floor for me, out of my own 3d symbols.

 

My inputs data will be width, depth and height.

 

My question is can i make it choose a symbol?

 

I have 7 different leg/column sizes to choose from.

 

I would like it to choose the biggest leg/column symbol that fits within the height.

[the frog]

Hello

To answer your question, it would be helpful to have your symbols and an example of a built stage

Difficult to understand what is the maximum height of the stage you need

 

Edited January 13, 2025 by the frog

[Mr. Minus]

Sorry. i work in CAOS so i am in the process of making my symbols, and working on the marionette on the side 😕

 

i can com back to this when i have more Symbols ready.

 

What i am trying to do is:

 

1. Draw a 3d box, inn the size of a stage floor, example (H 1,8m x W 14m x D10m)
2. Then run Marionette to fill in the box with the symbols right symbols (think building a scaffold)
3. I need every symbol to be put in in a 1,2x2,4m pattern inside the box
4. Then i can build the rest of the floor with Stairs after. 
5. then i can get an item list to order my floor.
6. make build drawing for the crew.

• Symbols That Marionette needs to chose from: 
  1. Jack spindel - 3 sizes symbols
  2. Column(leg) - 7 symbols (different heights)
  3. connections between the Columns and plates on top, are always the same.

Hope it makes sense 🙂

 

otherwise, i will get back when i have the symbols ready. 

[the frog]

Thanks for the answer.

Questions:

What configuration of VW you work on (architecture, spotlight, standard...) In the spotlight version you have a specific tool to build the stage.

Is your stage size always the same, same venue or stage on tour?

Is it the theatre's platforms you are always using?

To what precision you need the symbol to be, because it is soon memory consuming

How do you manage with the stage size to fit in 2,4 x 1,2?

 

Edited January 16, 2025 by the frog

[Mr. Minus]

6 hours ago, the frog said:

Thanks for the answer.

Questions:

What configuration of VW you work on (architecture, spotlight, standard...) In the spotlight version you have a specific tool to build the stage.

Is your stage size always the same, same venue or stage on tour?

Is it the theatre's platforms you are always using?

To what precision you need the symbol to be, because it is soon memory consuming

How do you manage with the stage size to fit in 2,4 x 1,2?

 

 

What configuration of VW you work on (architecture, spotlight, standard...) In the spotlight version you have a specific tool to build the stage.

  I am using Spotlight, the generic stage tool is to generic 😕

 

Is your stage size always the same, same venue or stage on tour?

  Always different, depends on tour, bands, conference  

 

Is it the theatre's platforms you are always using?

  No

 

To what precision you need the symbol to be, because it is soon memory consuming

  Fairly precise, but I can make the symbols more simple

 

How do you manage with the stage size to fit in 2,4 x 1,2?

  I was thinking Duplicate Array x 2 ( first from one direction, then all of them in the next direction )

 

I'm coming from AutoCAD (15+ years), and leaning VW 

[the frog]

Big change from cad to vw.

Getting deeper into your needs, at the end do you need all the nss horizontal floor to be seen + the colums, to be able to have a table of all the elements or just the floor at the correct high?

Do you need the bottom horizontals as well when using 167?

On 1/15/2025 at 12:33 PM, Mr. Minus said:

Column(leg) - 7 symbols (different heights)

can you tell me the reference number of the one you need?

[Mr. Minus]

How did you know i was NSS floor?

[the frog]

To answeryour question,  if you ask a to build a stage and your symbols are named Column and Jack spindel ...

If you have drawn a column symbol already that could help because the nss horizontals have different length

 

Edited January 17, 2025 by the frog

[the frog]

Hello

Here is the script you where (I hope) looking for.

It optimizes the maximum floor elements you can use with the side of the stage. By moving the size of the rectangle, it will automatically change the way the floor elements are disposed (up / downstage or stage right /left)

To make it work (as you can see) you have to draw a rectangle and give it a name (bottom of the OIP). In the file this is already done.

You can choose the symbol column you want to use. In this version the pop-up node to get the symbol is not done, so you have to change the name in the OIP.

About the symbols:

I draw them from the Norden site pictures! They are not fully accurate but more precise that the dwg you gave me.

The column symbols are all made on the same principle with different highs. This high define the stage high. It also defines if you have a bottom horizontal structure. Above 90cm the bottom will always be present being set the way it was drawn in your file.

 

This script makes a lot of calculation, I made it on a Mac pro with M4Max processor.  When you enter in the enveloppe nothing seems to happen but… after a while it opens. Idem when you execute. So knowing my computer is fast be patient with you machine.

 

 Last, for all the “tourists” looking at this script, to write it, I made some new nodes:  Info nodes for symbols and data nodes for lists + a divide by two node for the scrip esthetic.

Waiting for your comments.

Stage builder V1.0.vwx