Hi @Alisder_Brown
Im trying to create room elevations with dynamo, im pretty new to Dynamo,Is there any Chance we can see the graph to generate the elevation marker and turn on the 4 views ?
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Of course, no worries!
Ill look out the updated code and post it.
I have a few (4 i think) to run through the full process (Centering Rooms, Creating Plans of each room and named per room, generating the elevations for each room and then renaming the elevations to "Office 001 - A/B/C/D)ā and i have a video i made to use each one i will try and find.
Will post them later today when im back home!
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Thanks Alisder,
It would be a great help, im still on the steep learning curve so any help is much appreciated,
do you know of any good places to get information on python accessing Revits API in dynamo ?
Ive attached the definitions i use for generating Plans & elevations for Rooms. They are numbered 1-4 for the order i use them in. If you dont need the Floor plans of each room, ignore number 2.
- Number 1 - Is not mine, got it from the Forums. It Centers the āplacement pointā of each room to the center of the room
(Unless that would make it outside room boundaries, in that case it stays where the user placed it) - Number 2 - Again, taken from the forums and butchered a bit to suit my needs. Creates a Floor plan view for each
room, cropped to the room size and renamed to match room number/name - Number 3 - This is Jeremys hard work, taken from here: http://learndynamo.com/mod2/ and horribly butchered for my
needs. It Places an elevation marker on the placement points of each room and turns on all 4 elevations.
There is a lot of nodes i likely dont need in this definition, i modified it to do my task and have not went
back through to remove unused nodes yet (pure laziness) - Number 4 - Renames all elevations to the room they are in and appends an A/B/C/D or whatever you want (1/2/3/4) to
the name.
Videos are in the link below. They are easy enough to use.
https://we.tl/Fb3Sblszz8
1_ABro_CenterRoomsAndTags.dyn (3.3 KB)
2_ABro_CreateRDSplans.dyn (4.3 KB)
3_ABro_CreateElevationInRooms.dyn (59.6 KB)
4_ABro_RenameElevations.dyn (37.7 KB)
Happy to help out if you need more info!
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Thanks a lot,
Just had a quick look, thereās a lot of info there to digest 
.
Much appreciated !!
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No problem! Im no Dynamo expert, not by a long shot! So they are quite untidy and possibly not the most efficent, but they do what i need them to do! Im planning on reviewing and tidying them up sometime soon. Let me know if you have any issues
this is awesome!!!
These look to be awesome, but Iām getting an error on the āRectangle.ByWidthLengthā node that says
"Couldnāt decide which function to execute. Please provide more specific type information."
Any ideas whats going on?
The "CreateRDSplans.dyn node works greatā¦
Thanks!
Matt Edmonds
Hey, just saw this message. Iāve not seen that warning before and cant seem to be able to replicate it. Have you changed anything in the definition prior to running?
Thannks a lot Alisder!
But in the node 3_ABro_CreateElevationInRooms Iām getting an on error on the Python Script node in section 4:
Warning: IronPythonEvaluator.EvaluateIronPythonScript operation failed. _
Traceback (most recent call last):
_ File āā, line 73, in
Exception: index is occupied or out of range.
Parameter name: index
Any ideas whats could be?
Thanks
Vincenzo
Try going to a floor plan and running the script. It uses the active view when creating the elevations so only really works when running it from a floor plan
Hope that helps
Sory for the delay.
At the start of the definition, i have a couple of filters set up. It first filters by room name (i have it set to āLevel 0ā by default), then by area ( More than 2m/sq and less than 300m/sq) you may want to ensure the level name matches your level name and can remove the filter for the Area.
also, make sure you remove any redundant/non placed rooms from the project via your room schedule and run the definition in a floor plan view
Hope this helps
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Thanks!
I just found the time to test this out and while I have a bit of trouble with the rename elevations portion, Iām sure after trolling through all the other comments Iāll find out where Iām going wrong.
Sean
I wanted to check that someone else hadnāt answered my question before wasting your time. I was missing the āGet Al Views nodeā so I swapped it for the View Type node as shown in the image below with no joy. Any suggestions?
Add a āGet Views By Typeā node after the view type one.
Hi
Alisder_Brown
Is the link for the videos deleted
Yeah sory, forgot WeTransfer links only last a few weeks xD
You should be able to download the videos from here: http://autode.sk/2yydaLv
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Thank You Alisder for that great script.
The first 3 steps works really well, however, I have some problems with Step-4, and not sure what am I doing wrong.
I am getting warnings in both āManage.RemoveNullsā nodes, which is affecting āBoundingBox.Containsā & Element.GetParamterValueByName" nodes.
Unfortunately, I am new to the forum, so not able to upload screenshot.
Are you able to help please?
Thank you again
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Best to upload a camera export to another image host like Imgur, Dropbox, google drive, or the like.
Hard to help fix the issue if we canāt even recreate it as we canāt see the issue.
