Cut Generic Family with an other base face Family

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Hi everyone,

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i need your help please , i have an infrastructure project, and we already model all the manhole with a generic family and model sewerage pipes as a piping system, now i want to cut the a hole in the intersection between every manhole and pipes.
my idea to use Dynamo to place a based family voide on the surface of pipe , and after cut the generic manhole family with the based face void family.

you can help how i can do it please

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Hello @ilyes.kezai and welcome to the forum…

yes its possible, could you show what you have tried so far ? and we can try help from there…

but one option is intersect your component and use familyinstance by geometry for create a void and then use cutgeometry…

Take a look here. How to get help on the Dynamo forums

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I make the plan for the script to be like this :
1- Selectee by category all piping system
2- Make Family face based ( The family will be a cylinder extrusion void )
3- Select the both face of piping end (the two extremity of pipe get through the manhole) .
4- Place the void family on the end face of pipe (but the radius of cylinder void must take the same radius of pipe which I do not know how to make in dynamo)
5- After all void family placed on pipe extremity, will select all manhole generic family and cut by the void family

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sounds good with a plan :wink: try it and if you go stuck then just share your dyn and other data and we can try help :wink:

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ok i will start make script in Dynamo and share what i stuck with

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Uploading: Screenshot 2024-03-18 112212.png…
i start make my script , but i did not find familyinstance by geometry , even i search in package

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Hi @ilyes.kezai something went wrong in upload, try again and wait with reply before its loaded 100 %

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Hello Ilyes,

Welcome to the community!

To cut elements, I usually use CutElements node from HotGear package. You can check it out. To model a void family you can check out Spring package or Void.ByGeometry node. After you created the element, you can use the CutElements node.

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ok thanks for your comments , i will try those nodes and check if success

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Hi @ilyes.kezai try something here

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Hi @sovitek , i have two days trying but still failed, i will try your script , i am really so thankful for your help.

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@sovitek

i try the same node by still can not also.

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if you are in 23-24 be sure you have dynamoironpython 2.7 version 2.5 installed as well…you are welcome to share a rvt sample as in your image and i can test

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https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hXMM-Yy004spA8pnUePtjBR7zGD_pN7L?usp=sharing

please find the revit sample project and dyn script

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try as here and see if it could help…

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still can notalso , for me i did not find the ElementCut geometry form Clockwork, so i use Cutelement from Hot Gear , normally those nodes same ya

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allright guess it should work with hotgear as well, but strange you dont have the clockwork one…do you have Bakery installed btw ?

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yes i have installed Bakery, any node from Bakery can cut element ?

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thats why probably you dont see all clockworks node…that package Bakery havent been updated for years and gives conflict to other package…i recommend uninstall that and dont use it

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yes its seems Cutelemnt not work.