Marc Davies Posted September 12, 2017 Share Posted September 12, 2017 Is there a method anyone has used for hybrid symbols or objects to inherit space properties? I would like to shortcut the lengthy and error prone effort of manually assigning room numbers or names to furniture records (which is my current method) to enable worksheets with room-by-room (i.e. space-by-space) take off. I hope I am not alone in this requirement? Quote Link to comment
JMR Posted September 13, 2017 Share Posted September 13, 2017 There is, Have a look at Worksheet Functions in the VW help file, and there for these: GetSpaceNameForObj(criteria) (Vectorworks Architect required) The name of the space that surrounds the object that meets the specified criteria. Related function: GetSpaceNumForObj Examples: ● Database header cell: =GetSpaceNameForObj returns the space name for each object in the database ● Spreadsheet cell: =GetSpaceNameForObj(n='chair-1') returns the space name for the object named “chair-1” GetSpaceNumForObj(criteria) (Vectorworks Architect required) The number of the space that surrounds the object that meets the specified criteria. Related function: GetSpaceNameForObj Examples: ● Database header cell: =GetSpaceNumForObj returns the space number for each object in the database ● Spreadsheet cell: =GetSpaceNumForObj(n='chair-1') returns the space number for the object named “chair-1” There are others than these as well. A word of caution, however: I have had inconstistent results with these so far. Issues I've come across are: -The door object, which is in the middle of a wall, gets assigned one of the adjacent spaces, according to some invisible logic. As far as I know, there is no way to manually assign the space to the door. Some programs have a small handle that allows them to do this; I've wishlisted this item. -On some projects, only some of the objects seem to be able to read this information correctly. I don't know why yet. -On some projects, the functions seem to work ok. HTH 1 Quote Link to comment
Marc Davies Posted September 28, 2017 Author Share Posted September 28, 2017 Hi JMR, Thanks I will have a look at how this works with symbol objects, and sorry for the late appreciation - only just spotted your post. Quote Link to comment
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