Auto section for columns

[gerhard.p]

Hello @nia98bim

I have a graph that makes sections and planviews for columns, adds dimensioning and annotations, rotates the views, etc.

It is based on this post:

Element View Generation in Revit with Dynamo

My dyns for create/annotate, dimension sections, dimension planviews:
08_1_Stützen_Ansichten_erstellen.dyn (1.1 MB)
08_2_Stützen_Ansichten_Bemaßung.dyn (493.4 KB)
08_3_Stützen_Grundriss_Bemaßung.dyn (142.9 KB)

Some threads to the topic:

Transform Points and Faces to View Coordinatesystem for dimensioning

Hello Dynamo Friends I can dimension a column by getting faces, vertices, points and then taking some points by their index. [image] [image] To make this work for other columns i have to get the points i need by their location and not just by index. So let´s start with the PlanView, i have to make a rectangle out of the column for the dimensioning line location. To getting started i want to get the corner points of the column, but I´m even struggling with that: [image] Ge…

Get Front Surface of Element in View

Hello Dynamo Friends! I want to dimension columns like in the following view. Therefore i have to identify the surface that I´m looking at in the view. Later i want to offset the line i need for the position of the dimensioning. [image] I could achieve what i want but it was a pretty wild ride and so i just wanted to ask if you have some advice on how i could get my results easier! Here in Steps and pictures what i did: Create View Coordinate System Get Faces and Points Tra…

Columns - get geometry, face, vertices

Hello Dynamo Community! I want to get the outline or points of a Column in a section view. [image] I need that to place tags, detail elements, elevation marks and maybe for dimensioning. I don`t really know how to start, just a little first try: [image] Only thing i can get to work is getting the centroid point: [image] Would be happy about some advice THANKS! Kind regards!

Get Rotation of Columns and rotate views

Good evening Dynamo Community! I have created front views and planviews of columns and now I want to rotate the planview to match the orientation of the front view. I use a Vector from the front surface of the column and a new vector to get the rotation between the two vectors. Now I´m getting different angles depending on the vector direction respectively the location of the front surface, i think. Here are the angles I get for these two columns. I think they are not correct because they sho…

Dimension Columns - Dimensioning by Points?

Hello Dynamo Friends I´m playing around with dimensioning and i can dimension columns by faces. Like this: [image] and also like that: [image] Result: [image] Now i want to add the following dimensions in a section view: [image] And this wont work with parallel faces so i started by getting the points i need: [image] And now i would need a method to dimension by points, is there anything like that out there? Can i make an ElementGeometryReferences from a point? K…