Auto-Dimension from Walls

[simonn]

Hi Mark,
Im trying to add an old bit of code (attempting to) add brick CO coordination to the bottom of the dim
not having much luck at the moment any tips ill post my attempt later.

thanks

simon

[Luiz_Souza]

Hello everyone,

I need to automatically place these dimensions in multiple views. The horizontal dimension references are the walls that are cut and the openings and the horizontal references are the lower and upper floors and the openings. How to do this in dynamo.

[Mark.Ackerley]

Hi,

Sorry I don’t have time to do the complete solution, but this will give you a starter…

How can i put aligned dimension and angular dimensions in floors?

Hi Jonas, Yes, you must reorder the curves and references once again and the graph starts to become more complex. [Dimension%20floor%20edges%20with%20opening] [Dimension%20floor%20edges%20with%20opening]

Here’s a bit of a start for you to think about… as suggested, the difficulty will be keeping your view list, wall list and reference lists all consistant.

Dim Wall Floor.dyn (32.2 KB)

Hopefully that’s useful.

Mark

[Luiz_Souza]

@Mark.Ackerley Big Thanks for this!!! so helpful, but I started to develop and managed to come up with results like on the images with some problems.

The dimensions are with duplicate references and therefore the value 0 appears.

In the horizontal dimension, it only takes the middle wall reference if this wall is cutting the elevation wall. and don’t move outside the wall line.

The vertical dimensions are positioned correctly but take the references of the two windows.

I also cannot apply these dimensions to more than one section view of different walls.

Can someone help me?

Dim Wall_Elevations.dyn (113.7 KB)

[giacomo.sirignano1]

Hello,
please may you upload once again the script?

Thank you

[Luiz_Souza]

Hi @giacomo.sirignano1, here it’s.
Can you help me?

Dim Wall_Elevations.dyn (113.7 KB)

[giacomo.sirignano1]

Thank you but I was looking for the other script.
@Mark.Ackerley please may you upload?
The one uploaded here is corrupted.

Thanks

[dezindzer]

@giacomo.sirignano1

The one uploaded here is corrupted.

What version of Dynamo are you using?
If you have not installed 2.0.+, then these scripts wont load into the older 1.3.+ version.

[Mark.Ackerley]

Heya

You’ll see I uploaded the dyn previously along with a screen grab, if it’s not working that’s a shame, but it’s not many nodes so won’t take too long to put together…

Cheers,

Mark

[chandanakeerthi19]

Hi @Mark.Ackerley,

Auto-Dimension from Walls

Hi Laura, ok… Right… So in the intervening year, I’ve messed around with various versions when I’ve had time & the inclination. Who knew it would be so hard?! Obviously I’m not feeling that there is a perfect version yet, but it does depend quite what you’re after. As noted above, I went down a different route due to the shear number of pointy buildings I was getting… If it only works for rectangles it seems like a dead end. However, it that’s good enough for you, here’s a version which wor…

Thank you for the script. It is exactly how i want. I have run it and was successful.

But instead of separate strings can it be a single string of dimension?
Please help me with this.

Thanks in advance

[raulgondim]

hello, I tested it here but it doesn’t work, I use revit 2020 but when I run the error routine at no pyton error-> Warning: Your inputs are outside the allowed modeling range. Consider choosing the Large setting with a modeling range between 0.01 and 1,000,000 in the “Settings => Geometry working range” dialog box, help !!!

[Mark.Ackerley]

Hi,

View Working Range is set in Settings > Geometry scaling… you might need to restart?

Cheers,

Mark

[Mark.Ackerley]

Hey, there is a check box input for multi?

[raulgondim]

I made the changes that the warning asked for but it doesn’t work, actually after changing the dimension, the routine is executed and no error appears, but without result, the project remains the same and the dimensions are not inserted

[chandanakeerthi19]

Hi @Mark.Ackerley,

Thanks for the reply. But i didn’t get that.

Dimension in blue is what i got after running the script and they are created as three different strings. Dimension in black (selected in revit) is what i want exactly means i want it to be single string.

Can you please explain me in detail about how to make it a single string of dimension?
It would be very helpful.

Thanks again

[Mark.Ackerley]

Here’s an updated graph…

Auto Dims Linked

Hi All, I’ve been having some fun adding a bit of extra functionality to my auto dimension graph… It dimensions in the current document, linked documents, user selected and All in view… it creates multi-dims so i can run with a brick dim checker, it works for pointy walls… It ignores anything out of the cut plane. I’m not convinced linked files will work with different coordinate system locations, I need some more test cases. I have been struggling to return button clicks from WPF so it’s st…

Let me know what breaks!

Cheers,

Mark

[brenofilipe]

Hello @Mark.Ackerley

Your code doesn’t work for me… I select the wall, the script run, but doesn’t show me the dim… Can you help me please?

[Mark.Ackerley]

Hey,

Could you post a simple test file? I do know that it doesn’t compensate for scope boxes!

Thanks,

Mark

[c.poupin]

Hello @brenofilipe
Check if your project unit is in millimeters

[danail.momchilov]

Hi there, your script looks amazing and really complex!

However, I just gave it a try and it does not seem to work. I set the wall element and its references to OUT, so that I can see the results, and it seems that the script does not return any references in the end:

Do you know what might be causing this. Could it be a version - related issue? I am with Revit 2021 and Dynamo 2.6

Thanks!