PIO objects not appearing in Worksheet, using Location

[DCarpenter]

See attached image to better understand what I'm describing.  I have on my drawing a PIO that places 4 symbols next to each other, and a Symbol called "Chair", all located within a rectangle called "aaa".  When running a worksheet of all the symbols within the rectangle called "aaa", it is unable to see that the 4 symbols within the PIO.  Can you help me understand what is happening and how to fix it?   Attached is a screenshot for reference and the VW file.

 

Thank you in advance.  I always appreciate the help I get here.

Dave 

Test.vwx

[Pat Stanford]

It appears to be a bug. I can't make it work either.

 

It is possible that the Stage plug-in is not actually placing the symbols but rather just using the geometry from the symbol to draw it's own geometry.

 

 

[DCarpenter]

Pat,

 

I'm not sure I completely understand what your asking.  The PIO retrieves symbols from a symbol file and places them in the correct order within the PIO.  If I eliminate the rectangle "aaa", the worksheet works as expected, but as soon as I use the "Location" criteria, it freaks out.   I makes me wonder if the worksheet is using the coordinates of the insertions points within the PIO, verses their real world coordinates in the drawing.  Not sure, but thank you for looking at it.

 

Dave

[Pat Stanford]

You are likely correct that the LOC is not seeing the "offset" between the location of the symbols in the PIO (separate coordinate system) and the real world location of the symbols.

 

It does not work in VW2021.

 

You might need to be patient for a few months and save your pennies. 😉

[DCarpenter]

Should I report this bug?

Where do I do that?

 

Dave  

[Pat Stanford]

Bug submit is here:  https://www.vectorworks.net/support/bugsubmit

 

I doubt it will be considered a bug and will probably be Working As Designed.  

 

But you may get lucky and a newer version being released someday may have the problem already fixed. 🤞

[michaelk]

I think the problem is something to do with the LOC using the internal origin and the plug in using the user origin.  Or vis versa.  

 

If you reset the user origin to the internal origin and at least one point of object aaa covers 0,0 it works!

 

Don't ask me to explain why. 🙂 

 

[Ben3B]

hello I'm working on location too 🙂
I would that my reports filter symbol by location and the location name appers in my reports, but I'can't find it ine the database ... 

can you help me ? 🙂

for the criteria , it's OK 🙂

but where is the location data in the columns ?

 

 

ThanX
 

[Pat Stanford]

I don't think there is a way to report the (possibly multiple) LOCs that an object is within.

 

If you can use architectural Spaces, there is a function for GetSpaceNameForObj that might work for what you want.

 

It might also be possible to create a Worksheet script that would return what you want, but that will depend at least partially on how many different LOCs you will have and if you are willing to have some other identifier (probably a single class or record or field) that identifies all of the LOC objects.

[Ben3B]

ok thanks