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Standard Attributes for SpaceDesign

Posted by Render Plus on May 9, 2011 at 5:02am in SpaceDesign 3D PDF

In Space Design how do you export out (csv) or produce a report (pdf) showing ALL the built-in attributes that are displayed in the SketchUp Entity Info dialog box ?

(see example screen dump attached).

That is, how do you show ALL the following Attributes at the same time:

 

Layer

Name

Definition Name

Volume

Colour (Color)

……………………

I’m having particular trouble showing (Component) Name & Definition Name at the same time.

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  • Render Plus May 9, 2011 at 7:07am

    Yes - when I saw the 96,96,96 I checked myself.

     

    If you place Susan in a model, and bring up the SketchUp Materials Window, you will see that the material name is 96,96,96

     

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  • Howard Leslie May 9, 2011 at 6:56am

    Al,

    Thanks very much for adding the extra special attributes, sounds good - will be very useful.

    $material - just to confirm that it will be material NAME in the final version ???

    Its just that in the example above it appears to be RGB colour NUMBER 96,96,96

    ..........

    Material NAME would be much more useful.

    That way you can colour up Geometry in such a way to signify a function / use.

    eg You could define 3 new colours for pipework in a building:

    These colours are named as follows in Sketchup:

    Gas (which is Yellow)

    Hot Water (which is Red)

    Cold Water (which is Blue)

    ..................................

    Hope this makes sense !!!

    Regards

    Howard L'

  • Render Plus May 9, 2011 at 6:03am

    Special $ Attributes

    These can be used as desired, but cannot be modified

    • $count - a count of identical components - grouped into a single line.
    • $comp_desc - the description stored on the component definition.
    • $layer - the layer of the component.
    • $name - returns the Instance name if set, if not the definition name. (Up to any # sign.)
    • $iname - returns the instance name, or blank if not set.
    • $dname - returns the definition name.
    • $material - returns the Material Name on the Component Instance or Group
  • Render Plus May 9, 2011 at 5:31am

    Volume

     

    %v% should already be working for volume. It is a substitution code so that you can use if in other calculations. (There are also metric versions, like %v-m%)

     

    See: Substitutions

     

    Layer

    $layer should already work

     

    Instance name

    $name returns the Instance name if set, if not the definition name.

     

    I just added:

     

        $iname to always return the instance name, and


        $dname to always return the definition name.

    There is a setting on the options dialog, "Combine components made unique (# in name)" which determines whether "make unique" components, with a # in the name have the unique part removed.

     

    Material name

     

    I also, added a $material which reports the Material Name

     


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    We will add these to a new version on Wednesday.

     

    Let me know if there is anything else that you can think of which we need.

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