"SpaceObjectCoreTools" or how to create A Space object ("Raum")

[Zemtsov]

Hallo zusammen

ich versuche schon seit ein paar Tagen Raum Objekte mit dem python-script anzulegen aber klappt gar nicht .

Ich habe auf der Seite https://developer.vectorworks.net/index.php?title=Category:VS_Function_Reference:SpaceObjectCoreTools die Methods gefunden aber die mehr nicht in VS library mehr existieren.. Zum Beispiel:

vs.Space_CreateSpace

kann nicht gefunden werden

 

Gibt es eine neue Dokumentation dazu, oder gibts eine neue Methode? 🥹

 

 

[Pat Stanford]

I don't have any information on the Python version. I tried what you did and got the same error message. My guess is that the capitalization is different than shown in the Reference Manual.

 

The Vectorscript version does work, so the functionality exists.

 

Procedure Test;

VAR	H1: Handle;

BEGIN
	H1:=Space_CreateSpace(FSActLayer, 10');
End;

Run(Test);

 

[Zemtsov]

36 minutes ago, Pat Stanford said:

I don't have any information on the Python version. I tried what you did and got the same error message. My guess is that the capitalization is different than shown in the Reference Manual.

 

The Vectorscript version does work, so the functionality exists.

 

Procedure Test;

VAR	H1: Handle;

BEGIN
	H1:=Space_CreateSpace(FSActLayer, 10');
End;

Run(Test);

 

Thank You! Which version of VectorWorks do you have then? I also tryed just few funktions and there was no result.

[Pat Stanford]

I tested in VW2025 Update 4.

 

Dashing to a meeting, but ask again if you still need more help.

[Marissa Farrell]

Here's a quick file made in 2025 that demonstrates this working in Python.

Please let me know if you need an earlier version.

The script acts on the rectangle in the document, which I have named "poly"

python Space_CreateSpace example_MFarrell.vwx

[Pat Stanford]

I think I figured it out. At least partially. I was missing the parens at the end of the FSActLayer in my earlier tests.  The following works for me in VW2025.

 

vs.Space_CreateSpace(vs.FSActLayer(), 4)

 

@Marissa Farrell  Thank you for the help.

[Marissa Farrell]

17 hours ago, Pat Stanford said:

I was missing the parens at the end of the FSActLayer in my earlier tests.

That would do it! Python is strict about parentheses on functions. 

[Pat Stanford]

And CapitaliZation and white space.

 

Drives me crazy!!! 

 

I thought I had escaped languages that cared about specific spacing when I finished my Fortran 77 class in 1987.

 

I will take Begin/End and Semicolons any day over a program operating differently based on my accidentally putting in an extra space somewhere. 😂

 

My $0.02