Hello, I am trying to extract the outer lines of a text note so I can fill it with a fill pattern. Is this possible? I am having trouble extracting the text geometry/lines [image]

Hi everyone, Thank you all for your comments but what I was trying to do was get the outline of the actual text in a text note. This is essentially what I was trying to do but I couldnt figure it out in a text note but I was able to do it with model text. Please let me know if any of you know of …

Hello :wave: First of all please title your post with a brief description of what your issue is. On the node geometry + are you getting any geometry?

Fixed the title. @mix - what is the end goal here? Text is stored in a rather funny way in Revit (and most programs) as a result of font mapping, so you may have to look into other options.

Hey, try this… Useful thread: [image] Text Bounding Box? (to help with 2017 text problems) Revit Hello DaveP, The bounding box from text notes is quite easy to get via the API: [image] TextNoteFilledRegion.dyn (12.7 KB) [Capture]

looks like you just need to connect Element.Geometry to Face.Edges

Get outlines of text note

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Mark.Ackerley August 16, 2018, 8:15am 4

Hey, try this…

Useful thread:

TextNoteFilledRegion.dyn (12.7 KB)

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Get outlines of text note

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