developed a Dynamo script to automate beam modeling in Revit by selecting the lines I created. The script works as intended for generating beams; however, I observed that when I run the script multiple times with different inputs, the previously created beam elements get overridden. My objective is…

This may be very controversial but if you are physically drawing a line to represent a beam, then you are using a script to model the beam. Why are you not drawing the beam anyway instead of the line? Asking because it sounds as though you are adding lots of steps in that possibly are not needed. O…

Automating the beam modelling by selecting the lines in revit

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jacob.small May 27, 2026, 6:27am 2

This is Element Binding behavior and is intended. Review the thread linked for information on how to resolve.

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Automating the beam modelling by selecting the lines in revit

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