Dimensions of skin inside a wall

Nathan676 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 00:00:08 GMT

I am trying to get the dimensions of a particular skin inside a wall I am able to get to the skin by the following code but the only dimensions I seem to have access to is projected area and volume, but I am wanting to pull height and length as well. Also I am on Archicad 24.

for (auto& guid : elements) { API_Element wallElement; BNZeroMemory(&wallElement, sizeof(wallElement)); wallElement.header.guid = guid; GSErrCode err = ACAPI_Element_Get(&wallElement); API_QuantityPar params{}; GS::Array<API_CompositeQuantity> comps; API_Quantities quants; API_ElementQuantity elemQuants{}; quants.elements = &elemQuants; quants.composites = &comps; API_QuantitiesMask mask; ACAPI_ELEMENT_QUANTITIES_MASK_SETFULL(mask); auto error = ACAPI_Element_GetQuantities(guid, &params, &quants, &mask); if (error != NoError) continue; for (auto& comp : comps) { if (IsMaterialFrame(comp)) { comp.projectedArea; comp.volumes; } } }

Re: Dimensions of skin inside a wall

Hiromichi Shinkawa — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:47:26 GMT

Hi, Does it make sense for you to get the skin thickness by using ACAPI_Attribute_get() function, then calulate the the length of the skin ?

(len = comp.projectedArea/skin thickness, height = comp.volumes/comp.projectedArea)

HTH.

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