script_help : Cut with contour | boolean difference ?

[usai-sylvain]

Is there an API equivalent to the cadwork GUI Cut/Remove (active=hard), Cut/Remove (active=soft) or Cut/RemoveContour ?

If not could we have one 🙏
For the remove contour, user give a list of points, up direction vector and a "cut inside" boolean for closed contours to decide if we want to keep the inside (outer contour) or the outside (hole).

Thanks a lot!
Sylvain

[Brunner246]

@usai-sylvain

def subtract_elements(hard_elements: List[ElementId], soft_elements: List[ElementId]) -> List[ElementId]:

[usai-sylvain]

Amazing! I searched for "substract" in the documentation and then gave up 😅

Do you have something for the contour ? otherwise I can try to build a panel as cutter...

[Brunner246]

Amazing! I searched for "substract" in the documentation and then gave up 😅

Do you have something for the contour ? otherwise I can try to build a panel as cutter...

Nope, there isnt a function for the contour.
A good approach is to create a temporary element and then use it as a cutting body.

For "cutting use-cases" this might also be interesting to use delete_processes_keep_cutting_bodies