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    • blruuskaB Offline
      blruuska
      last edited by

      Not able to set enumerated "choice" type attributes via the API. For example, the IFC 2x3 CompositionType for IfcBuilding provides the values "complex", "element", or "partial". It can be set manually with the UI, but not the API:

      selection = Sketchup.active_model.selection
      definition = selection.first.definition
      definition.add_classification("IFC 2x3", "IfcBuilding")
      
      path = ["IFC 2x3", "IfcBuilding", "CompositionType", "IfcElementCompositionEnum"]
      success = definition.set_classification_value(path, "element")
      
      Error; #<RuntimeError; Unexpected attribute type>
      <main>;in `set_classification_value'
      <main>;in `<main>'
      SketchUp;1;in `eval'
      
      

      Am I doing something wrong, or is this kind of value setting not yet available in the API?


      IfcBuildingSnap.png

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      • Dan RathbunD Offline
        Dan Rathbun
        last edited by

        I think classification features are Pro edition ONLY of SketchUp version 2015 ?

        The API says:
        http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/developer/docs/ourdoc/componentdefinition#set_classification_value
        ... which says:
        @unknownuser said:

        • Raises NotImplementedError when trying to set the value of "choice" attributes.
        • Raises RuntimeError if the attributes being set are corrupt.
        • Raises TypeError when trying to set a value that is not valid for the attribute.

        That looks like a "choice" attribute. The API doc is incorrect on the exception class being raised, but it looks like setting these kind of attributes is not yet implemented.

        I even tried a ordinal integer without success. The same exception occurs.

        I'm not here much anymore.

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        • blruuskaB Offline
          blruuska
          last edited by

          Dan, Thanks for verifying. It is surprising that NotImplementedError wasn't raised, if that is the case here.

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          • brewskyB Offline
            brewsky
            last edited by

            😄 HaHa!!!
            I just found out that classifications are stored as nested attribute dictionaries!
            That means you can set classifications(if you're a bit careful) using the "normal" way with "set_attribute", I guess even in the free version...
            A "IfcBuilding" for example gets an attribute dictionary called "IFC 2x3" which gets a nested attributedictionary "CompositionType" which gets a nested attributedictionary "IfcElementCompositionEnum" in which "value" can be set as "partial"

            Cheers!
            Jan

            Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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            • Dan RathbunD Offline
              Dan Rathbun
              last edited by

              @brewsky said:

              A "IfcBuilding" for example gets an attribute dictionary called "IFC 2x3" which gets a nested attributedictionary "CompositionType" which gets a nested attribute dictionary "IfcElementCompositionEnum" in which "value" can be set as "partial"

              Oh that is correct... I forgot that. (Don't interact with classifications much myself yet, via code.)

              But... the actaul value in the nested dictionary is a string "partial" ?
              Ie, not the integer of the choice ?

              How would coders check if a value was one of the proper choices ?
              It looks like not much but the name, namespace and the <=> sort comparison operator have been exposed for the ClassificationSchema class.

              They have not exposed the filepath to the schema file from which it was loaded, so coders would need to go try to find skc & xsd files that match, in order to do their own XML parsing.

              I'm not here much anymore.

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              • brewskyB Offline
                brewsky
                last edited by

                @dan rathbun said:

                But... the actaul value in the nested dictionary is a string "partial" ?
                Ie, not the integer of the choice ?

                Yes indeed, a string. There is another atribute called something like "options" which contains a list of valid options (as strings). The entire classification scheme that goes with the selected ifctype(ifcBuilding) is stored inside the componentdefinition. So you can check validity right from the definition without having the original source scheme.

                Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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                • blruuskaB Offline
                  blruuska
                  last edited by

                  Ah, very interesting, thanks brewsky!

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                  • Dan RathbunD Offline
                    Dan Rathbun
                    last edited by

                    @brewsky said:

                    The entire classification scheme that goes with the selected ifctype(ifcBuilding) is stored inside the componentdefinition. So you can check validity right from the definition without having the original source scheme.

                    Oh that is right. I remember now. I did not like this when I realized it.

                    This is going to bloat model files.

                    Why did they leave them in each definition, when they could have attached only one schema to the definition list that needy definitions could reference? (rhetorical)

                    I realize they must be saved into components for 3DW & local libraries, but ...

                    I'm not here much anymore.

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                    • brewskyB Offline
                      brewsky
                      last edited by

                      @dan rathbun said:

                      This is going to bloat model files.

                      Yes, I'm glad they DO store the scheme inside the model so you don't have to redistribute it seperately, but more than one "copy" in the model indeed seems bloated.

                      I'm curious what happens when you upgrade a model from IFC 2x3 to 2x4(when a scheme is available). I'm affraid you would have to re-assign every single property... and manually remove the old scheme to get rid of the duplicate classifications.

                      Sketchup BIM-Tools - http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=299107

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                      • tt_suT Offline
                        tt_su
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                        @blruuska said:

                        Dan, Thanks for verifying. It is surprising that NotImplementedError wasn't raised, if that is the case here.

                        Ackh! Yea, something is amiss here. Not sure if we intended to support enumeration type in the initial release of the API - but if that's the cause it should have been NotImplemented. However, I might confuse this with the "choice" type. Maybe something changed in the last moment. I need to investigate.

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