Material Area for Adaptive components

[Kimtaurus]

I've made a 9-point adaptive component to place on a curved mass. These components are defined as curtain panels.

There's a material assigned to the different faces of the panel. Top, bottom and the edges.

I've noticed when creating a schedule to calculate the total areas, it gives me the top surface as well as the edges as one surface area. But not the bottom area. Additionally I can't seems to extract the seperate areas of the 3 materials.

When I apply the materials in the family as a painted material/parameter, the result is the same.

I need to be able to extract the exterior side of the panel. Any suggestons to achieve this are welcome.

In the attached file you'll find 4 types with different thickness or gap size.

The placement points are the same for the 4 panels. (Revit 2017)

[yurikim · Accepted solution]

Thank you for your posting @Kimtaurus. 

This seems to be due to the category is selected as Curtain Panels. Please see attached. What I have tried is to change this to Generic Models, and take quantities out from Material take off. 

[Anonymous]

Thank You Very Much @yurikim Same problem i was facing all the time while working with generic & Adaptive element take offs. it's great trick you've shared.

[barthbradley]

Well done @yurikim; my hat is off to you. 

[Kimtaurus]

Thanks @yurikim that was what I needed. You've just saved me a lot of time and worksarounds.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

My issue is different but related, as it has to do with the Material: Area parameter. I am trying to use the value of this parameter in a calculated value that reports to a shared parameter (that can then be tagged). The Material: Area is behaving nicely in terms of reporting the areas of painted geometries. However, when I try to tag it, the parameter proves hard to reach. I have also tried this in dynamo without any luck. I've tried set.ParameterByName with no luck.

In dynamo I've also tried to use the node Schedule.GetDataColumns from the Bimorph package, to 'copy/paste' the areas into another column and use the new column to shedule from - but I get the 'Dereferencing a non-pointer'...but there are no null values in my schedule...

any help would be greatly appreciated.