Hi I’m doing a definition to analyse world orientations of Windows and Curtain Panels. It’s quite easy for Windows, but as node FamilyInstance.FacingOrientation cannot be used for Curtain Panels and CurtainPanel.PanelPlane doesn’t work for panels on a curved Curtain Wall, I’m running into trouble. …

Here’s another method that may also work assuming the normals of the CurtainPanel.Boundaries is consistent: Assuming it is, and assuming the surfaces created from the CurtainPanel.Boundaries results in inconsistent normals; calculate their dot product. Any scalar of -1 is an inverted Surface.Normal…

Curtain Panel Orientation - false normals

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Steven February 9, 2018, 12:30am 11

I just found Wall.ExteriorDirection in Archi-lab and it works. Sorry for the post.

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