topic Re: Surface name of fill in GDL

Surface name of fill

Bruce — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 05:37:52 GMT

Is there a way to extract / query the name of the Surface used in a Surface Fill? One can query the fill name or BMAT name of all fill types (Drafting, Cut, Cover, Building Material), but one cannot query the Surface of a Surface type fill.

Any clues?

Re: Surface name of fill

Diego Rojas — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:09:38 GMT

It would be great to know how to do this. There are so many parameters and pieces of information that would be highly useful to access in Archicad, but at times, Archicad does not allow access to them through standard Archicad knowledge.

Re: Surface name of fill

Aaron Bourgoin — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:31:12 GMT

have you tried Tapir for this? require Rhino and Grasshopper, but I think they have nodes that would query this.

having said that I expect your doing something in GDL.

Re: Surface name of fill

Jaime-airc_digital — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 17:55:25 GMT

Hi Bruce, not sure if it may be related to what you are trying to achieve... sound kind of the opposite approach. I have developed a GDL tool to generate keynotes from any project surface, see the demo in the video attached. I am requesting the textures used by each surface selected by the user and this generated in line definitions for image fills to recreate the legend.

Re: Surface name of fill

Bruce — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:51:39 GMT

Looks good Jaime. However, the usage I'm after is for when surface fills are used in details / worksheets.

Re: Surface name of fill

kuvbur — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:06:08 GMT

Did you try REQUEST gs_mat_fill_ind?

bmat = 5 !Bmat index mat = 0 : gs_mat_fill_ind = 0 : gs_mat_fill_name = "" n = REQUEST{2} ("Building_Material_info", bmat, "gs_bmat_surface", mat) n = REQUEST{2} ("Material_info", mat, "gs_mat_fill_ind", gs_mat_fill_ind) n = REQUEST ("Name_of_fill", gs_mat_fill_ind, gs_mat_fill_name) text2 0, 0, gs_mat_fill_name

Re: Surface name of fill

Bruce — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 11:31:47 GMT

Yes. That will return the fill name. I'm after the surface name.

n = REQUEST{2}("MATERIAL_INFO", name_or_index, param_name, value_or_values) will return what I'm after IF I can retrieve the "name_or_index" of the fill to which the label is attached...which I don't think is currently possible in GDL.

Re: Surface name of fill

kuvbur — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 13:06:40 GMT

Could you show me a screenshot of the information you would like to receive?

Re: Surface name of fill

Bruce — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:23:24 GMT

Attached

Re: Surface name of fill

Michael W — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 04:27:06 GMT

It'd be great to expand the Global Variables for Fill parameters to include surfaces. We have 'FILL_BMAT_NAME' & 'FILL_BMAT'. We need 'FILL_SURF' and 'FILL_SURF_NAME'