(API) Selecting Objects By Orientation

[igos]

Hello everyone,

To expand wide possibilities of Robot Structural Filters I've made small AddIn. This tool help you to select Bars and Panels by their orientation - along planes and axes of global coordanate system.

You can preview tool fuctionality by following link: http://youtu.be/TF86AzZokEA

It was compiled only as DLL, so please read Installation.pdf for instructions.

As always - feel free to use, comment and modification!

[Rafacascudo]

Good idea!!!!

I suggest " by vector" being clickable , similar to Results/maps/automatic/cartesian/according to vector Vector 1,0,0 works .

Vector 2,0,0 ,which is the same direction , doesn´t work.

If "by vector" remains unclickable , at least it should allow any values in the XYZ vector as an easy way to discover what vector you want is using the translation tool window. Anyway , congrats!!! Great tool!!!

[igos]

Hi, Rafacascudo

Thanks for your reply and suggestion - I think I will modify AddIn soon to add functionality to select objects parallel to vector with any length.

Right now it was designed to use vector with length = 1

So, please, wait for update!

[Rafal.Gaweda]

Cool !
Added to our API macro and addin list

[igos]

Hello everybody,

By Rafacascudo's requets I've updated this Add-in.
You can preview the result of this update by follow link: http://youtu.be/Om62FvQiTD0

Enjoy!

[Rafacascudo]

Great job Igos!!!! Great tool!! thx

[legar]

Great job - thanks!!!

BTW

Is it possible to modify a little this great tool - actually I have to correct in tolerance for selection dot to comma.

Coordinates reads correctly as commas but tolerance use dot and without change to comma there is a message: "Error - Please, check input values".

Jerzy

[igos]

Rafacascudo, you are welcome 

legar, no problems - I've made such modification, please, download updated version from this post.

Also for users without admin rights I've made "portable", EXE-version of this AddIn. However, I can't recommend use it because the performance of this version is unsatisfactory. Use DLL-version if you can - it's much faster.

Enjoy!

[NguyenTTU]

Hi igos,

Your add-in is very nice and useful. However, it is too slow with a small model. I have checked it out on my model with 184 members, it took me about 7 to 10sec to find members parallel to Z.

If it is a big model, I have to wait for so long to get answer. I have found the reason for this issue. Your code has so many calculations in FOR statements.

Can you make it faster?

[igos]

Dear NguyenTTU, thank you for your reply!

Yes, I know that there are a lot of loops for each element in model, but I can's see another way to get information about geometry of elements. The main reason of slow performance is that you use EXE version of add-in.

Try to install DLL version and it will much faster. I hope that it will help you!

[psynan]

I've built the source and now trying to add the dll file through the menu Add-Ins->Add-Ins Manager->Browse to the GeomFilter.dll... but it doesn't get added to the installed add-ins... 

How should it get addded?

[Rafal.Gaweda]

See webinar 9 , slide 23
or
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis/creating-dll-for-api-and-making-it-available...
or
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/robot-structural-analysis/creating-dll-for-api-and-making-it-available...

[teixeiranh]

What is the reason for the DLL being much faster than the EXE?

Thank you so much for this great work!