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API To Get Material Type

isocam — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 09:38:25 GMT

Can anybody help?

Does anybody know how to display (in a message box for testing only) the Fusion 360 part material?

Say I have a part and I assign Stainless Steel to that part, I need to be able to display the material in a message box.

This is just a small part of a larger project that I an working on.

Many thanks in advance!!!!

Darren

Re: API To Get Material Type

erik — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 20:28:49 GMT

I am not entirely sure what you want, but if it is the name of the material applied to a component its usually the same as the appearance name which can be found using the following code

appearanceName = occurrence.appearance.name

and displayed using the following code

app = adsk.core.Application.get()
ui  = app.userInterface
ui.messageBox(appearanceName)

Please reply if this is what you want or something else is desired? 🙂

- Erik

Re: API To Get Material Type

wegienka — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 17:20:49 GMT

Given a component in:

Ptr<Component> comp;

You can access the material properties using:

Ptr<Material> mat = comp->material();

string matname = mat->name();