I have an apartment building with many ceilings created using the pick lines tool. Unfortunately using this tool the sketch lines remain associated with walls. If a wall moves the ceiling sketch adjusts accordingly. This is not always desired as wall thickness changes during design development. We …

[image] Mark.Ackerley: Am I right that editing in sketch mode is also not possible? (for any element) Not possible.

Hmmm… I’m not sure Dynamo can edit in Sketch mode… There is a method in the API IsMonitoringLocalElement if that could be set to False you’d be there… If @Kulkul hasn’t solved it, I’ll have a look when I get into work tomorrow… Apologies, Mark Edit: this may be useful… How to get the sketch lin…

Hey, So the MonitoringLocalElement wasn’t right, I wondered if MakeUnBound would work http://www.revitapidocs.com/2018/31ef6a2e-0e39-a394-b6ee-4e4df56d8380.htm So I took the python from the Springs node, outputted the profile and tried to run it on there, but I’m getting Exception:The Input Curv…

Hi @Lauren_Kruger @Mark.Ackerley [image] Mark.Ackerley: So the MonitoringLocalElement wasn’t right, I wondered if MakeUnBound would work Ceilings are not yet exposed to Revit API.

Thanks Kulkul, Am I right that editing in sketch mode is also not possible? (for any element) So the only method would be to copy and paste with a postable command, which wouldn’t help because you have to run it for each individual ceiling, which isn’t any quicker than doing it in Revit… Never mi…

One wild thought… why not use floor as ceiling (with appropriate thickness and material). you can then manipulate it as you want. Only for Schedule you need to filter it.

Thanks guys. Was worth asking but I guess we’ll just have to wait for API to catch up with users.

Get ceiling sketch lines, copy, delete & paste in place

Kulkul November 22, 2018, 9:48am 6

Not possible.

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Get ceiling sketch lines, copy, delete & paste in place

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