Functions AI Examples.md

Functions AI Examples

This collection provides progressively more advanced Vectorworks Python examples.

These examples are generated using AI analysing internal information.

Drawing and Document Basics

Example	Description
01. Draw a Room with Walls	Creates a four-wall rectangular room and applies consistent wall heights.
02. Draw 2D Geometry Primitives	Draws primitive shapes with varied pen and fill attributes.
03. Build a Curved Path with Mixed Vertex Types	Compares straight and rounded polylines built from corner, radius, and arc vertices.
04. Extrude 2D Shapes into 3D Solids	Turns rectangles, ovals, and polygons into positioned 3D extrudes.
05. Turn a Column Profile with Sweep	Sweeps a stepped profile into a column and adds a torus base.
06. Boolean Solids: Drill a Hole Through a Block	Builds an extruded block, subtracts a cylindrical hole, and adds a top box.
07. Set Up Document Structure: Layers and Classes	Creates architectural layers and classes with distinct graphic attributes.
08. Attach and Read Records on Objects	Creates a record, attaches it to sample furniture, and reads the stored fields.
09. Dimensioning and Text Annotation	Produces a measured room drawing with loci, callouts, and linear dimensions.
10. Iterate the Drawing and Report a Summary	Counts active-layer objects and totals bounding-box area using two traversal approaches.

Geometry Algorithms

Example	Description
11. 2D Vector Math Toolkit	Provides reusable tuple-based 2D vector helpers and visualizes their results.
12. Polygon Area and Centroid (Shoelace Formula)	Calculates signed polygon area, winding direction, and centroid.
13. Point-in-Polygon Test (Ray Casting)	Classifies test points inside an arbitrary polygon with ray casting.
14. Polygon Inward / Outward Offset	Rebuilds a polygon after offsetting each edge by a signed distance.
15. Uniform Arc-Length Resampling of a Polyline	Resamples an open polyline into evenly spaced points along its length.
16. Polyline Simplification (Douglas-Peucker)	Reduces a dense polyline while preserving its overall shape.
17. Convex Hull (Andrew's Monotone Chain)	Finds and draws the counter-clockwise convex hull of a point cloud.
18. Line-Segment Intersection Finder	Finds crossings among line segments and marks their intersection points.
19. Cubic Bezier Sampled to a Polyline	Approximates cubic Bezier curves as Vectorworks polylines.
20. Read a Polyline and Build Walls Along Its Path	Converts a selected or fallback path into auto-mitered, consistently sized walls.

Worksheets and Reporting

Example	Description
21. Hello Worksheet — Create and Populate	Creates, fills, recalculates, and displays a minimal worksheet.
22. Selected Objects → Worksheet Rows	Writes selected objects' properties to individual worksheet rows.
23. Count Objects by Criteria (Formula-Driven)	Builds a live worksheet dashboard using COUNT criteria formulas.
24. Auto-Populating Database Row	Uses a database row and record-field formulas to schedule matching objects automatically.
25. Geometric Property Extraction Table	Reports polygon and polyline geometry in a formatted worksheet.
26. Sorting and Grouping with SetWSColumnOperators	Sorts and summarizes a database-row schedule by worksheet columns.
27. Formatted Wall Schedule	Produces a polished wall schedule with geometry, units, and table formatting.
28. Symbol Instance Schedule	Lists symbol definitions with live instance counts and optional cost totals.
29. Cross-Layer Summary	Summarizes object and wall metrics across every design layer.
30. Publish Worksheet Image on a Sheet Layer	Builds a printable sheet-layer worksheet image through an idempotent reporting pipeline.