Hi there, What I’m trying to achive is to get location of some Cad blocks from a Cad file inserted as a link in Revit. Right now, I’m using an Excel file got from AutoCad and then I use dynamo to insert a family instance by point. I would like sth without using Excel, because those Cad blocks hav…

Double check the origin of your fixture family. It is not possible that there is an offset with identical location coordinates unless the origins of CAD block and family are different. It is working fine with the french Revit Electrical template. [FamilyInstances from CAD Link] [FamilyInstances …

Have you looked into what you can access via the dataextraction command in AutoCAD?

[image] jacob.small: dataextraction Using dataextraction I can get what I want. x,y.z geometry and the block name. I can get that, buy I dont want to do it with an excel file. I want to do it directly from Dynamo. manel

[image] Manel_Fernandez: What I’m trying to achive is to get location of some Cad blocks from a Cad file inserted as a link in Revit. Right now, I’m using an Excel file got from AutoCad and then I use dynamo to insert a family instance by point. Does the GIF below demonstrate what you want t…

Hi there! First of all, thks for your answers. @Ewan_Opie Find attached a capture of the cad file: [imagen] As you can see, there are some blocks in the same cad. They are some ligthing fixture, each block has a geometry with the location, so, I just need to read them in order to set my object…

I have the same issue with active x the file package :frowning:

Don’t know why, but sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t. Manel

while run the dyn you should open the related autocad file…

[quote=“MOJTABA256, post:12, topic:22538, full:true”] Thanks John for your solution but unfortunately it doesn’t work for me your python script. I imported the CAD geometry (for lighting fixtures) in Revit and tried to use your code but it didn’t work. I want to replace them with a lighting fixture…

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Ewan_Opie June 7, 2018, 11:21pm 5

What type of blocks are they, can you post a copy?

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