Two Questions :)

[twk]

Greetings all,

Have two queries

1. I have a quick plugin object that creates an extruded profile based on poly profile from a symbol.

When purging a document and selecting purge unused symbols is there a way to tell vectorworks via script that a particular symbol is in use via that plugin?

2. For this extruded profile plugin im adding a pitch and roll parameter. How can we include the degree sign in the display in the object info.. like ?.

Thanks in advance

Tui

[AFDesign]

Hi Tui,

If I understood correctly, my "Custom Beams" does exactly what you're asking, look this video

to verify if.

Have a nice day

www.andreafacchinello.it

[twk]

Thanks Andrea, my custom plugin object also has the ability to create groups of beams set out by width. Our plugins do look similar .

Would know the answer to my queries though?

Thanks for replying.

Tui

[JBenghiat]

Tui,

1. Add the symbol to your plug-in's profile group. Symbols in the profile count as "in use" and won't be purged.

2. The short answer is you can't, at least not without a lot of extra code. There is no angle parameter type. You can add an angle widget, but you have to code in setting and getting the value.

-Josh

[twk]

Thanks Josh,

For question 1, are you refering to SetCustomObjectProfileGroup? Would that work if my plugin object is a linear based one?

What it actually does is gets the polygon profile from a symbol. So in the script I've had to ungroup the symbol and use the polygon inside that to extrude it along a specified axis.

I will try and post a sample code to see if that will help.

Thanks in advance.

Tui

[JBenghiat]

Any object can have a path group and a profile group, even a point PIO. Both groups are really just storage containers, and nothing automatic happens to either on the code level. All you need to do is insert a copy of the symbol in the profile group.

The way that they are special is for edit modes -- double- or control- clicking, reshaping, etc.

The other special behavior is that the objects in each group persist, unlike the objects drawn by the PIO. That means you would either want to delete and re-create the profile group on every regen, or only insert the symbol if it changes.

HTH,

Josh

[AFDesign]

Sorry Tui, I can't help you this is all new for me too.

[twk]

No worries Andrea thanks for replying