Cutting Walls With Void Object Family

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Hey guys,

I thought this should be really simple but have gotten stuck, any help is appreciated!

I am trying to build a tool that will cut multiple holes in walls (rough openings) using families of void objects that I have created.

I tried to follow a few examples and came up with this but it doesn’t seem to do anything!

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This is the cutting void

Rough Openings.rfa (436 KB)

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Hi Nolan,

  1. You don’t need the wall’s geometry. the “host” required to place the family on needs to be a Revit element.
  2. The placement point for the family is on the surface of the wall. So select Face and use “point at parameter” to convert surface UV to a global XYZ point.

Not sure how you can get your family to actually cut the wall though.

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Home.dyn (9.4 KB)

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Element.CutGeometry (Clockwork)

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Hi! This code works great!! Do you know how you would adjust the nodes to space the voids at equal distances rather than randomly placing them?