Align Function in Dynamo and Lock function in Dynamo

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Hello,
After doing a little research i couldn’t find anything on this topic exactly. My problem is that I have to align an object to a center line of another object & then click the lock button. This can be very time consuming when you have hundreds of the command sequences to complete. I was wondering is there a way in Dynamo to access the Align command and access that Lock command and combine them into one process? Thanks in advance for any input you can give.

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Can you show us what you have tried?

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I dont have a dynamo code as of yet. I tried searching through all of the different functions in dynamo but couldn’t find any node that accessed the Align command in Revit or even a lock control.

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You can get the x,y,z coordinates of things, and move other “things” to that location.
That’s the “Align” command in Dynamo, sort off

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https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/align-with-auto-lock-function/idi-p/6407952

The idea to have it as a main command has been in the Idea Station for 4 years. I am trying to figure out a faster way doing that process.

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I haven’t seen any scripts that have a lock function.
Did you search the API database if its an option?

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Hi,

You can use the NewAlignment in the Revit API.
There is an example of this method in the Align Pattern To Edges node in Genius Loci package.

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