Get angle between duct and coordinate system

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Hi everyone, I am trying to write a Python script to place family according to Duct element including the rotation of the duct. But I am not success to get the angle between the duct and the coordinate system.
Can anyone advise me how can I place family which align the duct element?

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Hello why not just get the duct direction and a angle about axis and then just rotate

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Hi Sovitek, do you mean get the direction from duct.locationcurve? Could you explain more how to get the correct angle to rotate the new placed family?
More information is duct should be vertical

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Use Duct Surfaces References from GeniusLoci package. Select top duct’s surface and get its normal. And use angle between needed vectors at last.

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Hi Vladimir, is it also work for revit api?

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Just check it by yourself.

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Hello or somthing maybe…

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Hi,
A solution using the coordinate system of connectors

coordinate system duct

import clr
import sys
import System
clr.AddReference('ProtoGeometry')
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *
import Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry as DS

#import Revit API
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
import Autodesk
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
import Autodesk.Revit.DB as DB


clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)

#import transactionManager and DocumentManager (RevitServices is specific to Dynamo)
clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument


#Preparing input from dynamo to revit
elem = UnwrapElement(IN[0])

connectorEnd = sorted(elem.ConnectorManager.Connectors, key = lambda c : c.Origin.DistanceTo(elem.Location.Curve.GetEndPoint(0)))[0]
con_system = connectorEnd.CoordinateSystem 

OUT = CoordinateSystem.ByOriginVectors(connectorEnd.Origin.ToPoint(), 
                                        con_system.BasisX.ToVector(),
                                        con_system.BasisY.ToVector(),
                                        con_system.BasisZ.ToVector())
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Hi c.poupin, this is exact solution for my case.
Many Thanks.!