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Space Design - Material in Report

Posted by Desert Cove on February 9, 2012 at 1:42pm in SpaceDesign 3D PDF

I need to show the material of my component in sketchup on the space design report. Sketchup's "Generate Report" function reports the component's material automatically, so I know this is possible. I just don't know the correct code or "add new attribute" entry.

PLEASE HELP!

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Rich Hart February 22, 2012 at 10:45am

I finally got around to looking into adding Material as a field that you could use, and found it was already there. See this link for these special "$" Attributes:

http://www.renderplus.com/wk/SpaceDesign_Attributes_w.htm#Special_....

Just Add "$material" as a material to include in the report and you get'll it.
matt February 12, 2012 at 3:50pm

That would be great!

We will post our progress later next week.

Thanks,
Rich Hart February 12, 2012 at 4:32am

Probably because Color is a dynamic component attribute for Susan.

We can probably just add the Material as a field you can include on the report, and then we can override it with a dynamic attribute if there's a need to do that.
Desert Cove February 10, 2012 at 5:53am

I used several different "materials" in sketchup on several different components in my model and when I "Generate Report" in sketchup, all of the different materials show up on the CSV file....So I'm not sure why it didn't do that on your end?

See pic.
Rich Hart February 10, 2012 at 5:46am

We will have to add this capability.

Do you want to report the material assigned to the placed component instance?

I notice that the SketchUp report always shows the default material. Below the material Brick_Antique has been placed on Susan, but the report shows the default material, 96,96,96. Unless I'm missing something...