Area / volume in GeometryGym

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Hi there (and @jonm specifically) !
I was wondering if there’s an efficient way to process areas and volumes in GemetryGym directly, especially for walls for example, directly from the GG component outputs.
For Volume I currently use GGIFC ProductGetGeometry associated with Volume, but for Area i’m wondering how to do it clean and efficiently.

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Hi Quentin,

Thanks for the question. I’ve considered in the past about enabling quantity extraction (software such as Solibri does compute this) but the question you raise is the same I can’t really answer.
What does the area of a wall mean? Is it one major face? Is it gross or net? If you know the strategy on how you would like to compute the area, I can help with how to achieve it.

If you can share files, that would help (privately is fine).

Thanks,

Jon

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Hi Jon,
It was a general request. Usually i’d like to have two main areas computed:

  • The gross area consisting of the area of my major faces (those that are automatically built from the Path or perimeter + Wall height inputs for ggIFC Wall Standard Case component for example)
  • The net area where it is substracted the area of the openings (calculated the same way)

I understand there may be some issues with not fully in depth openings, some kinds of clippings and so on, but having a component that deals with the most basic configurations would be a nice adding.

Best

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@jonm to be more exhaustive, please find a simplified example. I would basically like a component that simplifies all the red group. Here it’s pretty easy but from my experience it’s pretty quick confusing and a source of mistakes on more complex projects…

net and gross area.gh (30.0 KB)