Ruby Console

[Glenn Woodward]

Tim,

I don't know what I was doing wrong before, but the macro now works in both the Room Label Defaults dbx and the Room Specification dbx.
Make sure the name you type in the Room Name box is exactly the same as your Macro Name in the Text Macro Management dbx and put the macro name in % befor and after.

[Tim Grindlay]

So, I have created a text macro called:
Finished Floor Elevation

In value box I have:
(finished_floor_elevation/100).round(3)

In Room Label DBX I have:

FL: %Finished Floor Elevation%

What shows up in my room label is:
FL: (finished_floor_elevation/100).round(3)


Clearly I am missing something

[Glenn Woodward]

Ah...
Go to the Text Macro Management dbx.
Select the macro.
Select Edit.
Down the bottom, do you have Evaluate checked and Context: Owner.

I don't have a tick and it works.

[Tim Grindlay]

I am still using the first example, that shows up level as zero, that works o.k.

I have noticed with this last macro, there is a tick in the Valid column, there is none in the first macro

[Tim Grindlay]

sorry , I didn,t see your previous post about room spec. box, but I have no check in evaluation box, (although I have tried all combinations Owner / reference etc.)

[Glenn Woodward]

Tim,

You have to have Evaluate checked and Context: Owner.

Email me a simple plan and I will have a look and email it back.

glenn@glennwoodward.com.au

[Tim Grindlay]

Success... , I just understood your post, I ticked Evaluate, context Owner... tick in Valid column is gone and it works - it is showing 0.0 I will build second floor and see if decimal place extends. Thanks

[Tim Grindlay]

Excellent, Thanks, 3 decimal places.

[Tim Grindlay]

Thanks for your help, it is getting quite late here, I will have to call it a night. Cheers.

[Glenn Woodward]

Yaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!

[M.Construction]

I am sure lots have figured this out already, but regarding Finished floor height versus framing, all I did was eliminate the finished part.. eg. floor_elevation
I really wish we could input it like we do ceiling height and not have to have it attached to either the default label, or the label name. Is there any ideas?

[gteacher]

According to Chief documentation, you can use a text box which is at least 50% within the room or use a text box with a leader line pointed inside of room. I tried it and it does seem to work. The room label bit works because you have to preselect the room before you config the label. the macro execute when you exit the dbx while object is still selected. No way to do that with a text box.

Have a question in to tech support on this. Don't hold your breath!!

[gteacher]

Correction --- DOES NOT

[gteacher]

Sometimes, you engage fingers before brain.

I need to correct my previous correction of a correction.

As far as rooms are concerned, since there is no way to select them via a Macros , so you can only use Ruby with the default room label or the specific room label. However, Chief's global Marcos for a room will work just fine in any text box inside of a room or a text-box w/leader that is inside a room.

Unfortunately, floor_elevation is not available as a global macro. Some available items are: ceiling height, internal area,dimension,type, volume -- Look under Global-Plan Info. But I believe all of the Chief's global macros are available to RUBY through "owner", but not vise versa.

Some additions may be made in X4

[Ian Pellant]

I'm back....
Haven't used Chief for the past two years... been using Revit exclusively (schools, office buildings, etc). As a result, didn't get much use out of Chief X2 and did not renew my subscription. In recession (again). Back to the home building industry.

Just downloaded X3 Trial to see if anything new has popped up; and found the Ruby button... which brings up the console and then only errors when the tutorial button is pressed.

Guess that Ruby is not fully delivered with the Trial version?

From the posts hereon, is it fair to say that Ruby script text labels are not worth bothering with?