Determining Surface Area

[Frank1000]

Hi,
is there a way in Softimage to see the surface area amount in units of one or multiple polygons ?

Regards,
Frank

[Pedrito]

Is a native atributte for polygon meshes, just an ice tree->get data->area for each polygon i think

[myara]

You could use that ICE attribute in a script
Object.ActivePrimitive.GetICEAttributeFromName( 'PolygonArea' )

Ex (for polygon faces and polygonmesh objects):

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#Python
from win32com.client import constants as c

xsi = Application
sel = xsi.Selection
total = 0

for obj in sel:
    # For faces
    if obj.Type == 'polySubComponent':
        CompCol = obj.SubComponent.ComponentCollection
        obj = obj.SubComponent.Parent3DObject
        attr = obj.ActivePrimitive.GetICEAttributeFromName( 'PolygonArea' )
        areaData = attr.DataArray
        for i in range(CompCol.Count):
            total += areaData[CompCol(i).index]
    # For polymesh objects
    elif obj.Type == 'polymsh':
        attr = obj.ActivePrimitive.GetICEAttributeFromName( 'PolygonArea' )
        areaData = attr.DataArray
        total += sum(areaData)
    else:
        LogMessage ( 'Not Supported', c.siError )
if total !=0 : LogMessage( total )