BlenderBIM - Add images to layout

tsvilans

Hi,
I'm trying to make a sheet with some model views. I've created the sheet and added a drawing. Then I click on Edit Sheet to edit the layout and place the drawing where it needs to be. Here I also want to add some more graphics, i.e. images that describe some materials or photographs of existing conditions. When I edit the layout and save it, then click on Create Sheets, BlenderBIM throws an error:

File "...\blenderbim\bim\module\drawing\sheeter.py", line 358, in build_drawings
if image.attrib["data-type"] == "background":
KeyError: 'data-type'

This suggests that the elements I add manually to the sheet need to either include a data-type property or I need to edit build_drawings to first check for the data-type prop. I'll try modifying the code to allow this - but wanted to check if there is already a way to add more elements to a layout easily, so that they can be included in the created sheet?

tsvilans

In sheeter.py, line 357 changing

for image in images:
    if image.attrib["data-type"] == "background":
        background = image
    ...

to

for image in images:
    if "data-type" not in image.attrib:
        view.append(image)
        continue
    if image.attrib["data-type"] == "background":
    ...

seems to do the trick :)

theoryshaw

You could also use 'references' to place svgs on the sheet...
https://community.osarch.org/discussion/comment/19086/#Comment_19086

tsvilans

Thanks! I wasn't aware of that :) That is probably the right way to do it.