Can Curtain walls be dimensioned with current dynamo nodes?

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Hi, I’ve been reading and researching a for a few hours but struggling to get a strong understanding of dimensioning curtain walls. The dimension.byelements node dimensions lines so I thought it would be able to dimension curtain grid lines? Can curtain walls be dimensioned by dimension.byelements node? Or do you need to understand python coding to achieve this currently?

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Looking likely, have a look through a bit of Python that can be found here:

and the designtech.io package from here https://designtech.io/tools/#dynamo

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Awesome thanks. Will dive into this after gym. I was on Lydna.com just before trying to start the beginnings of python coding. Lynda is free when you join up to the Auckland Library.

https://www.lynda.com/Dynamo-Studio-tutorials/Navigating-Revit-API/647661/687154-4.html?srchtrk=index%3A4 linktypeid%3A2 q%3Arevit+visual+studio page%3A1 s%3Arelevance sa%3Atrue producttypeid%3A2

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Sorry man… keep posting and figuring out stuff and reposting… finally figured out how to get your script to work for a section view overall dimension on a curtain wall, but need it to pick up curtain grids aswell and take lists.

import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)

clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager

doc=DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

line = UnwrapElement(IN[0]).GeometryCurve
elements= IN[1]
view = UnwrapElement(IN[2])
dim=0

elementsRef=ReferenceArray()
opt=Options()
opt.ComputeReferences=True
opt.IncludeNonVisibleObjects=True
opt.View=doc.ActiveView

for element in elements:
	elementsRef.Append(element)
	
TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)

dim= doc.Create.NewDimension(view, line, elementsRef).ToDSType(True)

TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

OUT=dim

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For multiple views, references and dimension setout lines, all the python inputs needed to be able to handle lists.
:grinning:

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import clr

clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager
doc =  DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
app = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication.Application

clr.AddReference("RevitNodes")
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)

clr.AddReference("RevitAPI")
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

def tolist(obj1):
    if hasattr(obj1,"__iter__"): return obj1
    else: return [obj1]

views = tolist(UnwrapElement(IN[2]))
dimSetoutLines = tolist(UnwrapElement(IN[0]))
refs = tolist(UnwrapElement(IN[1]))

refArrays = []

outList = []

for refList in refs:
    rArr = ReferenceArray()
    for l in refList:
        rArr.Append(l)
    refArrays.append(rArr)

TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)
for l,r,v in zip(dimSetoutLines,refArrays,views):
    try:
        outList.append(doc.Create.NewDimension(v,l.GeometryCurve,r))
    except Exception,e:
        outList.append(e.message)
    
TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

OUT = outList

To get the references of the CurtainGridLines use the node from the designtech.io package.

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This is amazing! thank you!