Detail items for dimensioning room boundaries

[selim.celem]

Hi, I’m trying to dimension the room boundaries in my project by using detail items. These detail items are used for ‘purchase drawings’ and I was wondering if there possibly could be a way to automate this process with Dynamo?

Anyone have any thoughts or ideas which could get me started working on a script?

[jacob.small]

This should get you started:

Room angle with bounding box, cuboid

Thanks for the reminder. Took a look at yours and the lack of documentation made it hard for me to wrap my head around which direction you took, so I started fresh based on my original idea. Hope you don’t mind. [Room Width and Length by Bounding Box] Instead of using vector rotation I took the angle tangent vector at the midpoint and found the angle with the X axis about the global Z, and then used a modulo function to find how far off 90 degrees each value was. This gave me …

[selim.celem]

This will indeed get me started, thanks Jacob!

[selim.celem]

I have made a script now where I get to place the detail items with the right start- and endpoints. the problem now is that the detail items are being placed exactly on the outer lines of the room. How do I change the location of the placed Family Instance? I have used the node Element.Location+ from the Clockwork package but I don’t really get how to continue from here?