Working with bodies

How to access the bodies in the real model

The “bodies” of a model are rooms or other features such as an adjacent_building, a topographical shade, a local_shade or a tree. These are accessed using the get_bodies() method of the VEModel class.

import iesve
currentproject = iesve.VEProject.get_current_project()
realmodel = currentproject.models[0]
bodies = realmodel.get_bodies(False)   # SelectedOnly = False; used to select all bodies in the model.

  • currentproject is an instance of the VEProject class.

  • realmodel is an instance of the VEModel class.

  • bodies is a list of VEBody instances.

How to access the room bodies in the real model

This uses the get_bodies() method of the VEModel class to access the “bodies” in the real model. The returned list of bodies is then filtered using a Python list comprehension statement to return only those bodies which are rooms (i.e. those bodies where the type property is equal to the iesve.VEBody_type.room instance).

import iesve
currentproject = iesve.VEProject.get_current_project()
realmodel = currentproject.models[0]
bodies = realmodel.get_bodies(False)   # SelectedOnly = False; used to select all bodies in the model.
roombodies = [x for x in bodies if x.type == iesve.VEBody_type.room]  # iesve.VEBody_type.room has an integer value of 1.