Hello, this is my first post. I’m really green with Dynamo and just trying to pick a task to start with. I’ve seen other posts on this forum about completing this task, and I’ve also read the blog post that a lot of other users refer to: http://bim42.com/2015/10/mep-design-and-dynamo/ I’ve downloa…

Hi @amvincent_heapy_com You need to get room locations from linked files and then create spaces. [image]

it should work. What does the error say?

Warning: CustomRoom.FromElement operation failed. An error occured

Kulkul, I’ve seen a screenshot of this in a previous forum post. The problem is that Room.FromElement and Room.LocationPoint are no longer in DynamoMEP. They are now “Custom…”. [image]

@amvincent_heapy_com Could you please drop your files here. We will have closer look at it. Thanks :slight_smile:

Create Spaces from Rooms.dyn (30.9 KB)

Here it is again. A co-worker helped me, it seems to be working. Now I just need to do some clean-up and see what else can be added in. Create Spaces from Rooms.dyn (2.0 MB)

What did you have to do to get it to work properly? I am having the same issue with the DynamoMEP CustomRoom nodes failing. I am running Revit 2017, Dynamo 1.2.1.3083, and DynamoMEP version 0.5.1.

Wow, talk about an over-complicated code. As someone new to Dynamo myself, I can appreciate all of the help you’re getting. Let me chime in with this gem I came across (only uses 8 nodes): [image] Use Dynamo to Sync Room Names & Numbers with Space Names & Numbers | Revit... Dynamo is not …

Good find Shawn, pretty cool. What I was mostly hoping to accomplish though is creating a code that places a space on top of each room regardless of phase or level. Getting a space on each room can be a painstaking and tedious process sometimes on a more complicated project that has multiple phases …

I managed to clean up the attatched script and now it works like a charm. Only drawback is that it creates spaces with default height (400 cm). It does not copy exactly the rooms from liked files. So if you have an elevator or stairs you need to adjust manually. [rooms%20from%20spaces]

Creating Spaces from Rooms

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I got help for the first set of issued i had in this other post

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