topic Re: Python - Handling Zone information in Archicad Python API

Python - Handling Zone information

pedrocollares — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 05:42:05 GMT

I've been starting to dive into the Python integration in order to put up a few routines regarding zone information in our firm. I'm a little bit familiar with the programming language itself, but I'm clueless on how to get the info from the elements.

I'm starting out with this, to get a list of all Zones in the project. Then there's a few things I need to be able to access in each of those zones. Which are:

Zone name
Layer to which they belong
Calculated area
Zone category
Home Story index
Home Story name

I'm not even sure if such information is available through the Python integration, though, in case they are, it would be good if I could, inside that 'element' loop assign them to variables so I can handle them across the code.

I hope there's a way to do such. Thanks in advance! 🙂

Re: Python - Handling Zone information

pedrocollares — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 03:47:13 GMT

Updates on my own thread 😅

Apparently all those worked:

They were put out correctly at the listener:

Although, as it seems, there is no Built-in property available to get the Home Story Index. I think I'll handle that by doing a comparison between the elevation to Project Zero and the Project's Story elevation

Anyone has directions on how to obtain those Home Story info?

Re: Python - Handling Zone information

BerndSchwarzenbacher — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 10:10:44 GMT

Hi Pedro,

There was a discussion about this a few months ago which I think is relevant for what you want to do: https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Developer-forum/Home-Story-Name-in-Python/m-p/31298

It boils down to 2 solutions:

Make expression properties which return the home story name and/or home story index
Make a C++ add-on which exposes additional API commands to Python (see for example https://github.com/tlorantfy/Archicad-additional-json-commands)

The first option is easier to realize but needs extra steps in each project. The second option needs additional expertise with C++ Add-Ons.

Best, Bernd

Re: Python - Handling Zone information

pedrocollares — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 22:35:32 GMT

Indeed, I'm for now going through this direction. Since the routines I mentioned are meant to be used only inside our firm, I think having the need to configure custom properties won't be an issue.

Thanks for the response 🙂