drilling element pyton controller for diameter end rough lenght

[raresgherasimrussen-sketch]

Hello,

I'm trying to make an API script in Python that will show me the diameter and length of a drilling element in the message bar. I haven't found the attributes that return the two values. I want to get Ø12x148 in the message bar but I can't find what to put in the code to extract these values. Please help.

Rares

[usai-sylvain]

Once you made sure your element is a drilling using ac.is_drilling(element_id), you can get the diameter using gc.get_width and the length using gc.get_length :

    import element_controller as ec
    import attribute_controller as ac
    import geometry_controller as gc

    element_ids = ec.get_active_identifiable_element_ids()
    if not element_ids:
        print("No active identifiable elements found")
        return

    for element_id in element_ids:
        # make sure it's a drilling axis 
        if ac.is_drilling(element_id):
            # get the diameter and length of the drilling axis
            diameter = gc.get_width(element_id)
            length = gc.get_length(element_id)
            # print result to console
            print("Drilling axis %s has a diameter of %s and a length of %s"%(element_id, diameter, length))

edit : added missing imports

[raresgherasimrussen-sketch]

Thank you! It works perfectly!

[raresgherasimrussen-sketch]

And if I need it to return the rough length? What would be the attribute, the controller?

[usai-sylvain]

You'll need to substract the overlength gc.get_over_length(element_id) :

Real length = Rough length + Over-length
Rough length = Real length - Over-length

[raresgherasimrussen-sketch]

Can you help me with one more topic? These controls you gave me, is there a complete documentation (a pdf) somewhere with all the python commands for cadwork? I'm new to this topic and I'm having a hard time finding such documentation.Thanks in advance!

[usai-sylvain]

This might be helpful indeed 😉
https://docs.cadwork.com/projects/cwapi3dpython/en/latest/