Create section views for each fmaily

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Greeting,

I would like to create section views for each family.

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This is what I got so far. A section view is created but without the family. I am thinking maybe coordinateSystem.By OriginVectors needs to be adjusted or min/max point.
The article below was used as a reference to create the script.
Create Section Views in Revit Dynamo! | by Han | Medium

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You’re going to struggle when your family has a location point and I think it might be good to go back to first principles.
Views have a sketch plane this defines the coordinate system with the Z axis being the view depth direction, the X axis the right hand direction and the Y axis being the up direction.
You can use your left hand to assist.

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So when we are creating a typical section view the Y axis is the conical world coordinates Z vector, The XY plane is the view sketch plane with view Z being the normal.
When you create a section the ‘bounding box’ is created relative to the view’s coordinate system with the bounding box origin [0, 0, 0] placed at the origin of the view and the max Z ‘height’ is the section depth, the min Z the section view plane and the X & Y define the size of the crop on the view plane.

One way to tackle this is to use a bounding box, grab the geometry cuboid and surfaces and use that to create the section view. A cuboid’s surface’s normal always faces externally so this can be consistently use to define the view Z direction (i.e. reverse it). The right hand axis can be done with a vector cross product. Use individual surface dimensions to get the bounding box X and Y, and lower left point for the coordinate system origin. With this you can consistently get an accurate section view.
I have used BoundingBox.ByMinimumVolume node, however BoundingBox.ByGeometry may suit your purposes, depending on your use case

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Edit: P.S. This should work with rotated bounding boxes
Edit 2: Clarity & grammer :wink:

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Assemblies?

OR

Place a copy of each Family somewhere next
to your building first (maybe on a different Workeset or Phase) to make things easier?

The last approach is what i use to make a drawing for all (unique) Door and Window Types i have in my project.

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Legend View?