Adaptive families

[gerhard.p]

Right, you get the “before” CS, build a “after” CS and then transform the family from one to the other.
In my experience such rotations will often mess up the basepoint of the family, so maybe as a last step you will have to translate the family back in place.

edit: oh, you can not use the familyinstance.transform node I showed above, sorry.

You need this python code from the last post here to transform adaptive families:

Adaptive Family - Transform Troubles

Hello Dynamo Friends I have a script to place these lighting families: [image] The script also attempts to rotate this family by 3 axis, but in revit this is not possible at all. I have to go the workaround to nest the family in an adaptive family. So I changed the graph to work with adaptive families: [image] This works by building a source and target coordinatesystem for every instance. [image] As I now had no “FamilyInstance.Transform” node to convert from one CS …