Space Design - Area of SU Materials/Colours/Textures in SD

Dear Al,

I would like to ask you if you are able to extract from SU (using SD) information about Area of Materials/Colours/Textures used for example:

- the area of different finishes as below.

Regards

Gregory

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Permalink Reply by Render Plus on May 20, 2012 at 11:38pm

You might me able to do this with a little effort.

We have a special attribute $material which returns the name of a material, but only the name of the material assigned to an entire component or group. So, in the example above, you would have to create your cube out of six rectangular components, and assign the material color to the component.

Them you could get a report showing the material name, and the area for each sub-component.

Special $ Attributes

These can be used as desired, but cannot be modified

$area - return the area of the component in sq-inches (also, $area_sqft, $area_sqm, $area_sqcm)
$count - a count of identical components - grouped into a single line.
$comp_desc - the description stored on the component definition.
$dname - returns the definition name.
$iname - returns the instance name, or blank if not set.
$layer - the layer of the component.
$level - return the sub-component level when drilling tinto sub-components. (0 is the top level)
$material - returns the Material Name on the Component Instance or Group
$name - returns the Instance name if set, if not the definition name. (Up to any # sign.)
$path - return the drill path of Component names or group names