Hello,
I’m trying to find a way to extract glass material from a window family. I can’t seem to find an easy way of doing this. I know that there’s a node from Clockwork that does this (Element.Material) but I like to try it on my own. I thought I could maybe creaty four points, create a curve and found at that way. But I can’t get a location… since it’s a material.
If anyone can point me in a direction here, I would appreciate it very much?
Maybe it’s good to mention that our firm is using an external firm to create all our families. None of the window/door families have information about the glass area built in to them (which would be the best option). This means all of our projects are missing this info. This is why I’m trying to create a script with the use of ootb nodes, it would make it easier for everybody to just run it with dynamoplayer without having to download packages.
I get the material from the window element and filter out the glass material. So I have the glass material that I want. The Element.Geometry node doens’t want to take it. Maybe bescause it’s a material and not a Element?
I think you misunderstood me last time. I was meaning to put the window element in Element.Geomtry. This will give you all the solids (like your last post)
Then measure the volumes of all the solid and parallel to that, measure the material volumes with Clockworks Material + node (See other post I mentioned)
Next and final, find the solid with the same volume as the glass volume, and you will have the right solid
(THIS WILL NOT WORK IF YOUR FAMILY HAS 2 SOLIDS, BOTH MADE OF GLASS)
the simple way is to introduce a slider which indicates how many glass panels their are, this makes the proces easier.
I made a slider which indicates how many glass panels there are, you have to do this manually or this is getting more complex.
Next I generate all combinations possible of the solids within a range of the number of panels.
Lets say: you have a family containing 4 solids( s1, s2, s3, s4) and I know I have 2 panels which are glass. I generate the combinations (S1, S2) (S1,S3) (S1,S4) (S2,S3) (S2,S4) (S3, S4).
Then I calculate the combined total volume of each pair, which should somewhere we the same as the total volume of glass, then we have the (in this case) 2 solids representing the class.
