I’m trying to create an edge that can be placed in revit much like you’d create a wall. I already having a functioning line based family for that matter, but I want the edges to be adjusted based on the angle between the edges. Currently the edges have to be adjusted manually to make sure they alig…

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Hi, Have you tried inputs as startpoint/endpoint?

No, but then again, I wouldn’t now which node to give these inputs.

i mean like how you create a wall (is linebased right?) or something similar

It’s similar to a wall, but it’s a line based family. If I can create a line based family while giving a start and endpoint as input my problem would be solved but I’m not sure where you wanted to go with that.

That looks like it should work,. What package is it from?

Google says Clockwork (dont know what version)

I got it working. Thanks a lot!

Does this work for Drafting Views as well? I am trying to utilize it for annotations… any ideas?

I tried using both the FamilyInstance.ByCurve node from Clockwork and the FamilyInstance.ByLine from archilab and both model the family instance starting at the project base point for some reason and I can’t figure out why. I feed in the curve defining a straight wall and yet it always gets modeled …

Create line based family instance

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Marcel_Rijsmus January 31, 2019, 11:45am 6

i mean something like this

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