Hi,
I’m currently trying to automatically create slabs in ArchiCAD from zones using Grasshopper. I’m able to set the composite or favourite manually in the script but I’m trying to find a way of automatically doing it based off of a property in the ArchiCAD zone. Would it be possible to use text to define a composite or is there some other way of selecting what composite to use without human input in the script?
Cheers
My solution to this is below. I used a simple Python script to pass in some pre-set composites and had a property within the ArchiCAD zone to define what composite I needed. To change what composite GH would create the slab with, I just had to change the property in the zone and send the changes.
Glad you could solve it, Thanks for sharing your solution @robert.cushing! Seems pretty straight forward. I think that the ArchiCAD component could be a little more friendly to such workflows, especially with composites, which imho make a lot of sense in scripts, because if it there’s one thing we change a lot it’s composites. but seems that ghpython is a good solution to this. 
Hello Rob
i only started to do some experiments with grasshopper, to extend the use of archicad in our office. i tried something similar, to create slab based on (the contour of) archicad zones (i use for early studies, such as competitions). i use the “deconstruct zone” element too, but the resulting slab always is created on ground level. i cannot find an option to create it at (bottom or top) level of archicad zone.
could you help me?
thank you very much
dierk
