Where I get the idxSkin?

[carlos lopez]

I am creating an property object to a wall of complex profile, for that I make a Request of skins,

REQUEST (“COMPONENT_VOLUME” idxSkin, skinVolume)
I have a question where I get the idxSkin
building material?
Priority?
Fillings of complex profile?
Hopefully someone can help me, thanks.

[Gergely Fehér]

idxSkin is the index of the skin to which you would like to get the volume. Unfortunately, this index is a bit tricky, it starts from 0 and must be smaller then WALL_SKINS_NUMBER. You can use the following code to get all skins volume and area from a composite wall:

for i = 1 to WALL_SKINS_NUMBER
	success = REQUEST ("COMPONENT_VOLUME", i-1, skinVolume)
	component "volume " + WALL_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES[i][1], skinVolume, "m3"
	success = REQUEST ("COMPONENT_PROJECTED_AREA", i-1, skinArea)
	component "area " + WALL_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES[i][1], skinArea, "m2"
next i

I hope it helps.

Gergely Fehér
Team Leader, Library Team
GRAPHISOFT SE

[Narendra Suryavanshi]

Hello Gergely Fehér,
Many thanks for code.
However will you tell me the formula to find number of skins of a beam/ or a column having complex profile/s.
Thanks in advance.
Naraindrra Surryavanshi

Thanks in advance

[Gergely Fehér]

Hi,

Getting the number of skins can be done with a do – while code block, as there is no dedicated global for it in these 2 element types. Unfortunately there is no global for the used building materials like WALL_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES.

nSkins = 0
do
    success = REQUEST ("COMPONENT_VOLUME", nSkins, skinVolume)
    if success then nSkins = nSkins + 1
while success

Gergely Fehér
Team Leader, Library Team
GRAPHISOFT SE

[carlos lopez]

I finally found as the skins are indexed in the complex profile, the idxSkin index number of each component corresponds inversely to the drawing sequence of fillings.
The system assigns the last fill the number 0.
I LEAVE AN IMAGE TO SEE AS interprets the code GDL.

THANKS Gergely Fehér I SERVED ME YOUR EXAMPLE, TO TEST

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[Narendra Suryavanshi]

Hello Gergely Fehér,
I am using your code for listing components of complex profiled wall, But not all components are returned by the program. In additions some quantities are wrong.Unable to understand. I cannot attach the PLA file for you due to restriction on size of attachments here. I tried to use the code over “Brick wall” which lies in the default profile of Ver 19.(Enclosing image and list output for your reference.)
Repeating the code for you

for i = 1 to WALL_SKINS_NUMBER
	success=req("WALL_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES[i][1]")
	success = REQUEST ("COMPONENT_VOLUME", i-1, skinVolume)
	component "volume"+WALL_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES[i][1], skinVolume, "m3"
	success = REQUEST ("COMPONENT_PROJECTED_AREA", i-1, skinArea)
	component "area "+WALL_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES[i][1],skinArea, "m2"
next i

As this happens for all the complex profiles it becomes large issue.
Thanks in advance.
NS

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[Gergely Fehér]

The line success=req(“WALL_SKINS_BMAT_NAMES[1]”) is absolutely useless, first try to delete it. If it does not help, then send me a sample file in mail please.

Gergely Fehér
Team Leader, Library Team
GRAPHISOFT SE

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