Exporting Material Information via Macro

[Anonymous]

Hello Dear All!

Actually, we are working on a project that we need to export thermal information (thermal conductivity, density, etc.) of all the available materials in Revit.

I have been trying to manipulate available macro samples to access all these information. Since I am very beginner, I get too many errors every time I try to change some part of data.

- I would like to know, if it is possible to access all the material's information in a text format?
- If yes, could you please help me to write the correct codes for that?

Thank you so much for your time and helps.

[jeremytammik]

Dear Rana,

I just noticed this thread of yours, and also your comment on The Building Coder requesting the same:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/01/read-material-asset-parameter.html#comment-25426229...

[Q] I would like to know if it is possible to get access to the list of all materials available in Revit with their Thermal Properties (thermal conductivity,density, etc.), in a text format?

Could it be done via writing codes?

[A] You can definitely access and export to text all the materials.

Look at The Building Topic group on Material Management and Libraries:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#5.5

I believe full access to their thermal properties is also provided:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/03/whats-new-in-the-revit-2013-api.html

> Physical Properties > Thermal properties

> Material assets > ThermalAsset – contains thermal properties that can be set on materials via PropertySetElement and SetMaterialAspectByPropertySet()

If you are a begiinner with the Revit API, please work through the getting started material before doing anything else or asking any other questions, especially the DevTV and My First Revit Plugin tutorials:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#2

Good luck and have fun!

Cheers,

Jeremy