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W1 casement 13 pivot lines in elevations and 3d

Anonymous
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Can some1 help me, ive been looking for 25 minutes where i can turn off pivot lines on W1 casemant 13 window and i cant find it Can some help ? Am i blind ?

thx

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Anonymous
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Now I understand, and I don't like it.
Just another reason NOT to bother with 13!
This is a deal killer for me.
Looks like I wasted my money!
No need to take it out of the box now.

G.S.
Let me know when you "fix" this.
I say bug!
Anonymous
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I'll have to take a look at this. I've never bothered much about this since I generally just use my own custom parts which only show the opening lines in elevation view (GLOB_CONTEXT = 4). I've never understood why anyone would want the opening lines in perspective or axon views.
Erika Epstein
Booster
If you don't want door swings to show in 3D windows, you only need to save a MVO with them turned off with your view.
These global MVO options are only a problem when within a view/drawing you want to have one item with it on and another with it off.
Erika
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Anonymous
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Erika wrote:
These global MVO options are only a problem when within a view/drawing you want to have one item with it on and another with it off.
There are no overrides in the parts? (I wouldn't know since I have been using my own for so many years.)
Barry Kelly
Moderator
The global MVO settings are a fantastic idea.
Generally you will want an overall setting that can be save with the individual views
But any object that is adjusted by these settings must have an over-ride to say not to use the MVO.
Any settings can then be made individually in the object.

I have started to script this into my custom libray parts and it is working really well.
An extra line or two of code and everyone is happy.

Barry.
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Anonymous
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Hello Barry,
Mind telling us what that extra line or two might be
Thanks,
Peter Devlin
Barry Kelly
Moderator
Sure.
Really simple.

There will be a line that checks the MVO setting.
Something like this.

success = LIBRARYGLOBAL ("JWH_LibraryGlobals13", "pres_white_pen_swch", req_pres_white_pen)

You just need to add a boolean parameter in the objects so that if it is on it looks for the MVO setting and if off it doesn't.

if MVO_pres_swch = 1 then
success = LIBRARYGLOBAL ("JWH_LibraryGlobals13", "pres_white_pen_swch", req_pres_white_pen)
endif


2 extra lines and a new parameter.

Barry.
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
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Anonymous
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Great when you have that ability, but when you don't;
Makes Archicad look like it's being made for programmers not Architects.
Odd, where's the TON of wish lists of Architects demanding this "bug"?
And where are the true wish list items that are so frequently asked for?
What the....
Barry Kelly
Moderator
I don't use the Graphisoft objects but I am guessing that in the case of the cupboard door swings they would have taken out or hidden the parameter in the object that turns them on or off.

It would then be controlled via the scripts and the returned value from the LIBRARYGLOBAL request.
It would be a matter of adding back or unhiding the door swing parameter.

Something like this.

!!Master script
if MVO_doorswing_swch = 1 then
HIDEPARAMETER "show_doorswing"
success = LIBRARYGLOBAL ("LibraryGlobals13", "doorswing_swch", req_doorswing)
endif

if req_doorswing = 1 then
show_doorswing = 1
else
show_doorswing = 0
endif
PARAMETERS show_doorswing = show_doorswing



!!3D script
if show_doorswing = 1 then
line commands here
endif
One of the forum moderators.
Versions 6.5 to 27
Dell XPS- i7-6700 @ 3.4Ghz, 16GB ram, GeForce GTX 960 (2GB), Windows 10
Lenovo Thinkpad - i7-1270P 2.20 GHz, 32GB RAM, Nvidia T550, Windows 11
Anonymous
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Why cant GS think through this stuff before bungling forward, or should I say backwards?