topic Re: Zone Settings Materials Information in Archicad C++ API

[SOLVED] Zone Settings Materials Information

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 18:54:37 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to find the materials of a room (Zone) entered by the user through the RoomTool Settings -> Settings -> Floor, Wall, Ceiling & Roof Panel:

-Floor Covering
-Ceiling Covering
-Wall Covering
-Roof Covering

I do not find them in the Memo of the Zone, also it is not part of the IFC Attributes or Properties. Where are these values stored?

Thank you for the advice.
Best, M

Re: Zone Settings Materials Information

Akos Somorjai — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 07:48:05 GMT

mar_kq wrote:
Hello,

I am trying to find the materials of a room (Zone) entered by the user through the RoomTool Settings -> Settings -> Floor, Wall, Ceiling & Roof Panel:

-Floor Covering
-Ceiling Covering
-Wall Covering
-Roof Covering

I do not find them in the Memo of the Zone, also it is not part of the IFC Attributes or Properties. Where are these values stored?

Thank you for the advice.
Best, M

Hi,

They should be in the memo.params, in parameters like iFloorCovering (or stFloorCovering for the textual representation).

Best, Akos

Re: Zone Settings Materials Information

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:59:36 GMT

Hello Akos,

I have tried your suggestion but I dont find these Attributes:

Akos wrote:
They should be in the memo.params, in parameters like iFloorCovering (or stFloorCovering for the textual representation).

Here the way I retrieve the memo.params:

// GET MEMO ------------------------------------------------------------ //
	BNZeroMemory (&memo, sizeof (memo));
	if (err == NoError && element.header.hasMemo) 
	{
		err = ACAPI_Element_GetMemo (element.header.guid, &memo, APIMemoMask_AddPars);
		if (err != NoError) 
		{
			ErrorBeep ("ACAPI_Element_Get/Memo", err);
		}
	} 
    
	// GET ELEMENT PARAMETERS --------------------------------------------- //
	if (&memo.params != NULL || *memo.params != NULL)
	{
		GS::GSSize paramCount = BMGetHandleSize (reinterpret_cast<GSHandle> (*&memo.params)) / sizeof (API_AddParType);

		map<string, string> attributeMap = map<string, string>();	
		for (int p = 0; p < paramCount; p++)
		{
			string attrName = (*memo.params).name;
....

I also tried getting the Memo without the APIMemoMask_AddPars Filter. I get in total 555 Parameters for the Zone.

There seems to be some Material-related Parameters:
wall_mat, ceiling_mat, floor_f, but they have only a single letter as a string value.

It seems the attributes I am looking for are all in the RoomStamp and not in the Room itself. I see there is a StampGUID in the Element Information.

How do I retrieve this Stamp attributes?

Thanks, Mauricio

Re: Zone Settings Materials Information

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 06:41:23 GMT

So I figured out what was going on:

I had previously retrieved the string values with the following code, which was truncating the string after the first character. Therefore I did not "see" the values I was looking for:

reinterpret_cast<char*>((*memo.params).value.uStr);

I replaced it with the following and now it works:

GS::UniString ((*memo.params).value.uStr).ToCStr();

Thanks