Example objects for this post In ARCHICAD 23 a new source format has been introduced for handling the GDL objects as text files: the Hierarchical Source Format (HSF). This post introduces the parts of this source format and flies through the conversion of a library from XML format to…
Using BasicGeometry macro
Example object for this post From ARCHICAD 21 a macro called BasicGeometricCalc has been added the ARCHICAD Library. As its name suggests, this macro contains basic geometrical calculations, which can come in handy for GDL 2D and 3D scripting. With the introduction of DICT in ARCHICAD 23, the parametrization…
New parametrization of labels for ARCHICAD22
Compatibility: introduced in ARCHICAD 22. From ARCHICAD 22 new parameter control method has been introduced to Label tool. Creating labels has got more convenient then before: all the necessary parameters are part of the “Label” subtype, and will be added as fixed named optional parameters by default when creating a…
XFORM: the transformation matrix
Description of the transformation matrix used with XFORM and …SHELL commands, and some useful vector geometry applications.