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Extractelement 3d geometry using C++ API

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 12:57:14 GMT

How to get the element (Slap, wall, roof, extrude etc..) 3d geometry such as profile, polygon coordinates, surface etc.

Re: Extractelement 3d geometry using C++ API

Ralph Wessel — Mon, 02 Nov 2015 19:00:51 GMT

Arularasu wrote:
How to get the element (Slap, wall, roof, extrude etc..) 3d geometry such as profile, polygon coordinates, surface etc.

Take a look at the ModelAccess API. There is an example called ModelAccess_Test. There doesn't appear to be any documentation though.

If this isn't suitable, you can still use the old 3D Manager, e.g ACAPI_Element_Get3DInfo.

Re: Extractelement 3d geometry using C++ API

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 07:27:12 GMT

Thank you Ralph

Re: Extractelement 3d geometry using C++ API

Anonymous — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 05:33:15 GMT

How to get the extrude profiles from a wall element. All we can get is polygons, edges & vertices. We need to get extrude profiles etc. It is possible to get extrude profile information's ??

Re: Extractelement 3d geometry using C++ API

Ralph Wessel — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 10:44:16 GMT

Arularasu wrote:
How to get the extrude profiles from a wall element. All we can get is polygons, edges & vertices. We need to get extrude profiles etc. It is possible to get extrude profile information's ??

The extrusion profile(s) for a wall with a custom profile can be retrieved from the profile attributes. Take a look at the documentation for API_ProfileAttrType and API_AttributeDefExt. You will need to calculate an extrusion profile for other types of walls, i.e. the API won't give you one.