TBC Macros and Extensions

Hi Fernando, 

Thanks for all your advice.

I have a basic question, how would you access and assign/edit point attributes of the FXL? There are many classes associated with this but I still haven't figured out which one is the best approach.

Hi Weifan,

sorry for my late reply, but I´m not checking this forum in the last weeks due to high workload.

Unfortunately I haven´t done anything with FXL attributes in TBC yet, only in Trimble Access accessing myself to the FXL attributes etc, but not in TBC, therefore I cannot tell you too much about the way to access them in TBC.

I guess it´s using the Trimble.Vce.Data.FXL  

Regards,

Fernando

Hi Fernando, 

Thanks for all your advice.

I have a basic question, how would you access and assign/edit point attributes of the FXL? There are many classes associated with this but I still haven't figured out which one is the best approach.

Hi Fernando and Ronny,

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, just came back from holiday. 

With help from Ronny, "AssociatedRDFeatures" is the way to go for the feature code. 

I have a new issue related to the topic. I have an IFC file, with each entity containing a long list of attributes. I tried to use "UserAttributes" but the count is zero, which means these attributes are not "UserAttributes" (unless i am doing something wrong here?)

I also tried to use "UserDefinedAttributes.GetTypedValue" but I am not sure what parameter i should feed to it. 

How would you extract the attributes out of an entity? 

Thanks in advance

Weifan

Hi Weifan,

sorry for my late reply, but I´m not checking this forum in the last weeks due to high workload.

Unfortunately I haven´t done anything with FXL attributes in TBC yet, only in Trimble Access accessing myself to the FXL attributes etc, but not in TBC, therefore I cannot tell you too much about the way to access them in TBC.

I guess it´s using the Trimble.Vce.Data.FXL  

Regards,

Fernando

Hi Fernando, 

Thanks for all your advice.

I have a basic question, how would you access and assign/edit point attributes of the FXL? There are many classes associated with this but I still haven't figured out which one is the best approach.

Hello Weifan,

in cases like this I always use my inspect macro that allows me to select a single entity and reach a stop point where I can inspect its properties.

    def OkClicked(self, cmd, e):        Keyboard.Focus(self.okBtn)        self.error.Content=''                #wv = self.currentProject [Project.FixedSerial.WorldView]        #ProgressBar.TBC_ProgressBar.Title = ""                for o in self.objs:            tt = o            tt2 = o

In case of one of my IFC's I can see that it is an IFCMesh object.

Using the object browser I can see that IFCMesh doesn't have any methods handling its properties. But it resides within BIMEntity (m_site).

And that one does provide PropertiesCount, GetProperty.

So, the following code will create a list with all the attributes of the object.

    def OkClicked(self, cmd, e):        Keyboard.Focus(self.okBtn)        self.error.Content=''                #wv = self.currentProject [Project.FixedSerial.WorldView]        #ProgressBar.TBC_ProgressBar.Title = ""                properties = []        for o in self.objs:            bimentity = o.GetSite()            for i in xrange(bimentity.PropertiesCount):                properties.Add(bimentity.GetProperty(i))            tt2 = o

Hi Fernando and Ronny,

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, just came back from holiday. 

With help from Ronny, "AssociatedRDFeatures" is the way to go for the feature code. 

I have a new issue related to the topic. I have an IFC file, with each entity containing a long list of attributes. I tried to use "UserAttributes" but the count is zero, which means these attributes are not "UserAttributes" (unless i am doing something wrong here?)

I also tried to use "UserDefinedAttributes.GetTypedValue" but I am not sure what parameter i should feed to it. 

How would you extract the attributes out of an entity? 

Thanks in advance

Weifan

Hi Weifan,

sorry for my late reply, but I´m not checking this forum in the last weeks due to high workload.

Unfortunately I haven´t done anything with FXL attributes in TBC yet, only in Trimble Access accessing myself to the FXL attributes etc, but not in TBC, therefore I cannot tell you too much about the way to access them in TBC.

I guess it´s using the Trimble.Vce.Data.FXL  

Regards,

Fernando

Hi Fernando, 

Thanks for all your advice.

I have a basic question, how would you access and assign/edit point attributes of the FXL? There are many classes associated with this but I still haven't figured out which one is the best approach.

Hello Weifan,

in cases like this I always use my inspect macro that allows me to select a single entity and reach a stop point where I can inspect its properties.

    def OkClicked(self, cmd, e):        Keyboard.Focus(self.okBtn)        self.error.Content=''                #wv = self.currentProject [Project.FixedSerial.WorldView]        #ProgressBar.TBC_ProgressBar.Title = ""                for o in self.objs:            tt = o            tt2 = o

In case of one of my IFC's I can see that it is an IFCMesh object.

Using the object browser I can see that IFCMesh doesn't have any methods handling its properties. But it resides within BIMEntity (m_site).

And that one does provide PropertiesCount, GetProperty.

So, the following code will create a list with all the attributes of the object.

    def OkClicked(self, cmd, e):        Keyboard.Focus(self.okBtn)        self.error.Content=''                #wv = self.currentProject [Project.FixedSerial.WorldView]        #ProgressBar.TBC_ProgressBar.Title = ""                properties = []        for o in self.objs:            bimentity = o.GetSite()            for i in xrange(bimentity.PropertiesCount):                properties.Add(bimentity.GetProperty(i))            tt2 = o

Hi Fernando and Ronny,

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, just came back from holiday. 

With help from Ronny, "AssociatedRDFeatures" is the way to go for the feature code. 

I have a new issue related to the topic. I have an IFC file, with each entity containing a long list of attributes. I tried to use "UserAttributes" but the count is zero, which means these attributes are not "UserAttributes" (unless i am doing something wrong here?)

I also tried to use "UserDefinedAttributes.GetTypedValue" but I am not sure what parameter i should feed to it. 

How would you extract the attributes out of an entity? 

Thanks in advance

Weifan

Hi Weifan,

sorry for my late reply, but I´m not checking this forum in the last weeks due to high workload.

Unfortunately I haven´t done anything with FXL attributes in TBC yet, only in Trimble Access accessing myself to the FXL attributes etc, but not in TBC, therefore I cannot tell you too much about the way to access them in TBC.

I guess it´s using the Trimble.Vce.Data.FXL  

Regards,

Fernando

Hi Fernando, 

Thanks for all your advice.

I have a basic question, how would you access and assign/edit point attributes of the FXL? There are many classes associated with this but I still haven't figured out which one is the best approach.

Hi Ronny, 

One more question for you. Extracting entity attributes/features never seem to be so straightforward, now lines. 

Do you know how can I set the line feature and change all its feature attributes?

Thanks in advance 

Hello Weifan,

in cases like this I always use my inspect macro that allows me to select a single entity and reach a stop point where I can inspect its properties.

    def OkClicked(self, cmd, e):        Keyboard.Focus(self.okBtn)        self.error.Content=''                #wv = self.currentProject [Project.FixedSerial.WorldView]        #ProgressBar.TBC_ProgressBar.Title = ""                for o in self.objs:            tt = o            tt2 = o

In case of one of my IFC's I can see that it is an IFCMesh object.

Using the object browser I can see that IFCMesh doesn't have any methods handling its properties. But it resides within BIMEntity (m_site).

And that one does provide PropertiesCount, GetProperty.

So, the following code will create a list with all the attributes of the object.

    def OkClicked(self, cmd, e):        Keyboard.Focus(self.okBtn)        self.error.Content=''                #wv = self.currentProject [Project.FixedSerial.WorldView]        #ProgressBar.TBC_ProgressBar.Title = ""                properties = []        for o in self.objs:            bimentity = o.GetSite()            for i in xrange(bimentity.PropertiesCount):                properties.Add(bimentity.GetProperty(i))            tt2 = o

Hi Fernando and Ronny,

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, just came back from holiday. 

With help from Ronny, "AssociatedRDFeatures" is the way to go for the feature code. 

I have a new issue related to the topic. I have an IFC file, with each entity containing a long list of attributes. I tried to use "UserAttributes" but the count is zero, which means these attributes are not "UserAttributes" (unless i am doing something wrong here?)

I also tried to use "UserDefinedAttributes.GetTypedValue" but I am not sure what parameter i should feed to it. 

How would you extract the attributes out of an entity? 

Thanks in advance

Weifan

Hi Weifan,

sorry for my late reply, but I´m not checking this forum in the last weeks due to high workload.

Unfortunately I haven´t done anything with FXL attributes in TBC yet, only in Trimble Access accessing myself to the FXL attributes etc, but not in TBC, therefore I cannot tell you too much about the way to access them in TBC.

I guess it´s using the Trimble.Vce.Data.FXL  

Regards,

Fernando

Hi Fernando, 

Thanks for all your advice.

I have a basic question, how would you access and assign/edit point attributes of the FXL? There are many classes associated with this but I still haven't figured out which one is the best approach.

Hello Weifan,

I haven't done much with line features yet.

So far I've found out how to get the values and how to remove them.

Base on the Trimble ViewProjectData macro and changing the code from my InspectObject macro as follows.

from Trimble.Vce.Features import LineFeature        for obj in self.objs:            # the things we are looking at.            observes = self.currentProject.Concordance.GetIsObservedBy(obj.SerialNumber)                        for o in observes:                if isinstance(o, LineFeature):                    for att in o.Attributes:                        tt = o.Remove(att)                        tt2 = tt

Each object is observed by others and is also observing things. In case of a Linestring i.e. it is observing the points it might be connected to and the LineFeature.

LineFeature.Remove works.

LineFeature.Create are all protected and I have to find out how to circumvent this.

Hi Ronny, 

One more question for you. Extracting entity attributes/features never seem to be so straightforward, now lines. 

Do you know how can I set the line feature and change all its feature attributes?

Thanks in advance 

Hello Weifan,

in cases like this I always use my inspect macro that allows me to select a single entity and reach a stop point where I can inspect its properties.

    def OkClicked(self, cmd, e):        Keyboard.Focus(self.okBtn)        self.error.Content=''                #wv = self.currentProject [Project.FixedSerial.WorldView]        #ProgressBar.TBC_ProgressBar.Title = ""                for o in self.objs:            tt = o            tt2 = o

In case of one of my IFC's I can see that it is an IFCMesh object.

Using the object browser I can see that IFCMesh doesn't have any methods handling its properties. But it resides within BIMEntity (m_site).

And that one does provide PropertiesCount, GetProperty.

So, the following code will create a list with all the attributes of the object.

    def OkClicked(self, cmd, e):        Keyboard.Focus(self.okBtn)        self.error.Content=''                #wv = self.currentProject [Project.FixedSerial.WorldView]        #ProgressBar.TBC_ProgressBar.Title = ""                properties = []        for o in self.objs:            bimentity = o.GetSite()            for i in xrange(bimentity.PropertiesCount):                properties.Add(bimentity.GetProperty(i))            tt2 = o

Hi Fernando and Ronny,

Sorry I didn't get back to you earlier, just came back from holiday. 

With help from Ronny, "AssociatedRDFeatures" is the way to go for the feature code. 

I have a new issue related to the topic. I have an IFC file, with each entity containing a long list of attributes. I tried to use "UserAttributes" but the count is zero, which means these attributes are not "UserAttributes" (unless i am doing something wrong here?)

I also tried to use "UserDefinedAttributes.GetTypedValue" but I am not sure what parameter i should feed to it. 

How would you extract the attributes out of an entity? 

Thanks in advance

Weifan

Hi Weifan,

sorry for my late reply, but I´m not checking this forum in the last weeks due to high workload.

Unfortunately I haven´t done anything with FXL attributes in TBC yet, only in Trimble Access accessing myself to the FXL attributes etc, but not in TBC, therefore I cannot tell you too much about the way to access them in TBC.

I guess it´s using the Trimble.Vce.Data.FXL  

Regards,

Fernando

Hi Fernando, 

Thanks for all your advice.

I have a basic question, how would you access and assign/edit point attributes of the FXL? There are many classes associated with this but I still haven't figured out which one is the best approach.