Hello. Im trying to place dimensions with dynamo. As a reference I want to use Detail lines. But i can not create them in the Vertical views like elevations and sections. Looks like Dynamo can create them only for the floor planes or ceilings views. Maximum what I reached its projection of Horizon…

You will need to set the sketchplane first before trying to create 2D content in section views. First extract the Plane of the section view ( #clockwork has a node for this, View.Plane) then use the :snowflake:_Set Sketchplane By View node from Sastrugi :wink:

[image] Ewan_Opie: Set Sketchplane Thanks a lot. It works. [image] But I don’t understand what is going on here. The node for detail lines doesn’t ask for any sketch planes. And it still started to work fine. Where is this sketch plane based within dynamo or how the nature of this sketch …

As long as the active sketchplane is set to the sections view plane before the DetailCurve is called to be generated then the line will be created. I will show an order of operations example and an example of showing the active workplace in the morning. (It is a PostableCommand called ShowWorkPlane…

Hi, Apologies if this sounds a bit awkward, but why do you ‘want’ detail lines as references? Presumably if your base elements change, your dims are wrong? Would you mind expanding upon the problem you are try to solve? It may be that there’s a better approach to the problem… Hope that’s ok …

@m.shcheblykin Just think of the Sketchplane as being the active Workplane. Check out the example of this (shown as picking Sketchplane by Face) here: https://sites.google.com/view/sastrugi/examples Here is the Python to toggle the Active Workplane visibility on and off. import clr clr.AddRefere…

I need to increase a speed of the drawings production. I have metal cladding walls Elevations. And I can not put any dimensions onto anythings except Axes and lines. Looks like this subject is still not developed in dynamo. I tried to extract ref planes from families and I didn’t find the way how t…

I recommend you have a read of this topic :grinning: [image] Dimension to wall finished face Revit Hi I’m trying to dimension to the finished face of 2 parallel walls. If I use the walls as the elements in ‘Dimension.ByElements’ it will do it to the centre line. I don’t …

Hey, I have been doing quite a lot of work on this, it depends quite how your walls are built… As Ewan posted, if it’s a regular wall then absolutely, have a look at his link and we can customise it for you. If it’s some kind of mass family, yeah probably I can help? If it’s curtain walling, umm…

[image] m.shcheblykin: Here the file if you wish :grinning:. I placed some dimensions already as a sample what do I need to have with Dynamo in perfect way: Placed dimensions directly onto the geometry. Coz right now I create Detail lines first and after put dimensions on them. Also I need s…

Hmm… So I’ve had a mess around, I’ve got to stop now, but I’ve modified the graph to dim the curtain wall in plan. The good news is that the topology node works, so we can get faces for dimensioning. I’d have to rework it for a section view, but it should hopefully just be modifying the nodes and …

I can’t find View.Plane node, although 1) “Clockwork” has been installed, 2) “Clockwork for Dynamo 2.x” shows error, when I am trying to install it. [image]

Detail Lines. How to place detail lines in Section/Elevation views

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Detail Lines. How to place detail lines in Section/Elevation views

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