Aligning true north with revit

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Hi Everyone,

Currently I have a family parameter called "MGS_NORTH_DIRECTION " in north arrow family.I would like to pass the default parameter “Angle to True North” from project base point to “MGS_NORTH_DIRECTION” . However it doesn’t work. Anyone can help and tell me why?

I understand If I create the same name as " Angle to True North" in the north arrow family, it will work. But if like the case I want to pass one value from one parameter to another, how can I make it work? Many thanks in advance.

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You’re feeding the number 97 as an element.
Element.SetPatameterByName accept an element so you have to feed the same Element from where you’re extracting the value

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@dylanpeng Here is better explanation “How to keep north arrow symbol aligned with project true north in Revit using DynamoBIM”

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Thanks Kul, I have read this before. but it says we have to burry same parameter name as " Angle to True North" in the north arrow family. It doesn’t say how it works when we have different name. However for company like us we have the naming convention which do not allow us to have a name like that. But thanks anyway. :slight_smile:

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Thank you Cesare. It works. :slight_smile:

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Good, mark as solved…thanks