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How to get solid operation substraction volumn?

leilei
Enthusiast
Hi,
I cut an entity element with a mesh and a column. Now I want to get the mesh hole volumn through the API functions.How to get it?
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Akos Somorjai
Graphisoft
leilei wrote:
Hi,
I cut an entity element with a mesh and a column. Now I want to get the mesh hole volumn through the API functions.How to get it?
Hi,

There's no function on the API to give you that. What you can do is to get the volume of the mesh before and after the cutout, and subtract the two.

Best, Akos

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Akos Somorjai
Graphisoft
leilei wrote:
Hi,
I cut an entity element with a mesh and a column. Now I want to get the mesh hole volumn through the API functions.How to get it?
Hi,

There's no function on the API to give you that. What you can do is to get the volume of the mesh before and after the cutout, and subtract the two.

Best, Akos
leilei
Enthusiast
Hi Akos,
Yes, I created a new mesh with the same mesh and deleted it after getting the original volume.

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