Mstn's Rendering Materials systems manages a large number of settings and other info that can be applied at subelement level (faces).
It would be useful to leverage this to allow the use to extract or select the faces that have been assigned a particular material.
This would also pave the way for the user to sum up the area of all the faces assigned a particular material.
Also would enable Items to be assigned to a particular material or a particular face.
https://communities.bentley.com/products/prostructures/f/prosteel-forum/247750/paint-area-of-complex-model/774523
there are others, i suspect