topic Re: Get Material Types in Revit API Forum

Get Material Types

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Oct 2018 13:21:41 GMT

Hi folks,

I would like to be able to get the materials in the project and get their Material Class.

The code I've written is as follows.

FilteredElementCollector materials = new FilteredElementCollector(Global.doc()).OfClass(typeof(Material));

List<Element> materialList = materials.ToList();

But when I try to get i.e materialList[11].MaterialClass I am not able to retrieve its class. Eventhough I know its there.

There must be a specific way of casting the value.

I've tried casting like (Autodesk.Revit.DB.Material)materialList[11] but it didn't helped either.

Can anybody please help me to retrive MaterialClass please. Any advice is much appreciated.

Re: Get Material Types

jeremytammik — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 11:34:00 GMT

Have you installed RevitLookup?

https://github.com/jeremytammik/RevitLookup

You can use that to interactively explore the Revit database, its elements, their properties, and their mutual relationships.

That should enable you to resolve your issue yourself.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Re: Get Material Types

naveen.kumar.t — Mon, 15 Oct 2018 05:45:06 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Have you tried the below code??

Material mat;
string material_class=mat.MaterialClass.ToString();

Re: Get Material Types

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 09:28:50 GMT

Thank you this is very helpful.