Bounding box shape not rectangular

Geometry
#1

Hello,

I sometimes want to split up my building into different worksets. I want to split it up by a given geometry.
The way I did it was using a “Bounding Box”. A Bounding Box works fine as long as your shape is rectangular. How about when it’s not? Unfortunately the Geomtry.BoundingBox and the BoundingBox.ByGeometry nodes only return a rectangular shape using the extends of a given geometry as seen in the picture below. I found the Bounding Box shap using the BoundingBox.ToCuboid node. What should I do to give the Bounding Box it’s correct shape?
Especially for more complex forms.

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#2

Use another geometry. Bounding boxes by definition are axis aligned. Scope boxes rotate just fine and can be named in Revit to inform what workset you want to use.

#3

What do you mean by another geometry? Scope boxes are also always rectangular right? I would like a free form.

#4

look into a convex hull perhaps, I think ampersand has this in 3 dimensions.

#5

I delve in very similar issues and what I’ve implemented in springs is something called a minimal area rectangle (green vs the red bounding box):

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Check it out and see if it meets your needs. The ampersand package has a similar node but I needed something that can operate fast on many objects.

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#6

Yes scope boxes are rectangular but can rotate and serve additional purposes in Revit to aid in documentation.

If you need something completely unique you will have to build a sketch for it from either points in Dynamo, or as a sketch element (maybe a filled region?) in Revit. Those will then need to be converted to Dynamo lines and extruded to get the unique shape you’re after.