Divide wall

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Hi everyone,

If I have a wall whose ID is like 163254 can I divide in two pieces with dynamo?

Like ID 1
ID 2

And how do it,

Thanks a lot

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Hi Alberto,

When you say you want to split the wall, do you mean you want to split it into parts? If so SteamNodes has a few nodes that deal with parts. The “Element.MakeParts” node will report the id of the original wall and the ids of the individual parts. There was a discussion about it not too long ago here:

http://dynamobim.com/forums/topic/decompose-walls-using-dynamo/

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Thanks, I had a look on the discussion on your link but I tried to split my wall in two id but it doesn’t work (I am not able to select more elements and I do not know why). I woud like yo split the wall when it finds another wall. Is it possible?!
Thanks a lot again.
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Hi Alberto,

Revit API does not provide any API method split wall elements. Method to create walls are indeed provided. Thus you could use the NewWall method to create a new element, shorten the original one accordingly, and set the properties and parameters obtained from the original to the newly created one. This might provide a possibility to mimic the splitting effect.

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I think we may both be looking for a solution to do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lh4hMgTTMec using Dynamo. What I think Alberto is looking for and the same with me is to take a wall assembly and decompose it in a manner that each layer becomes its own wall type. Not part.

Alberto, if so, were you able to find a solution to this?