Text, visible on the Floor Plan, not visible for Print OUT

[Daniel Virtic]

Hi everyone!

Are we able using GDL, to write a code, for let’s say a text in 2d script that will be visible on the Floor plans, but I don’t need it if I want to print a file or export as pdf, etc.

AC20 USA
•Workstation HP Z800 2 x Intel Xeon Quad Core E5620/E5630, 36 GB ram DDR3 - NVIDIA QUADRO 4000 2 GB memory, Windows 10 pro

[Gergely Fehér]

Hi Daniel,

I think it is not possible to create an object like that with simple 2d scripting. For a workaround, you can do it with a lib based MVO, where you can set up a parameter for that, reach it from your objects and create different views for editing and printing/exporting.
Or you can do it without GDL: put these object to a new layer, and simply turn it off before printing/exporting.

Gergely Fehér
Team Leader, Library Team
GRAPHISOFT SE

[Daniel Virtic]

Thank you Feher for your prompt reply , what I am trying to achieve actually is something like I’ll protect my template.

We are using a Bim Server and my new template contain a lot of gdl work, complex profiles, composites,rendering scenes etc. I don’t want someone to be able to use this template for external Projects if make sense.

So I am still thinking to a solution to protect this work. because as far as I know, you can easily save a copy of project, once you have acces to a bim Server, or you can extract all the libraries as well very easily.

Any advice in this way?

Thank you

AC20 USA
•Workstation HP Z800 2 x Intel Xeon Quad Core E5620/E5630, 36 GB ram DDR3 - NVIDIA QUADRO 4000 2 GB memory, Windows 10 pro

[Gergely Fehér]

Libparts can be simply copied and used in any projects, maybe an add-on can protect libraries. The only protection is the password setting to hide the scripts and avoid changes in your libparts.

Gergely Fehér
Team Leader, Library Team
GRAPHISOFT SE

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