Request Override Surfaces

[Daniel Virtic]

Hello everyone, Is there a way to request the name of Overridden surface of an ArchiCad element, on each faces and edge.

[Csilla Mai]

Hi Daniel,

The surface indices of the ARCHICAD elements are available through the Global Variables. To get the name of the material you can use the “Name_of_material” request. For example displaying the material names of a slab element in a label object in 2D:

_matTop 	= ""
_matBottom 	= ""
_matEdge 	= ""

r = request ("Name_of_material", SLAB_MAT_TOP, _matTop)
r = request ("Name_of_material", SLAB_MAT_BOTT, _matBottom)
r = request ("Name_of_material", SLAB_MAT_EDGE, _matEdge)

text2 0, -1, _matTop
text2 0, 0, _matBottom
text2 0, 1, _matEdge

Is this solution the one that you need? Could you please explain that what would you like to use the material names for?

Csilla Mai
Library Developer, Library Team
GRAPHISOFT SE

[Daniel Virtic]

Thank you Csilla.
It’s working. I need to get the override surface of elements, in order to have them in the schedule via label tool. I create a custom label, where I need to round up some values, such as wall height, etc according to my needs.

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