'Get surrounding elements' node detects more elements than necessary

[joris.vanbossche]

Can someone tell me what’s wrong with my script or with my project?
I’m trying to send information from my rooms to the ceilings, but for an unknown reason the ‘getsurroundingelements’ node gives me more rooms than I expected:

Is there something wrong with the script or is there something not correct in my model?
Files: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/akfpkk1utjctuoz/AABcMR53rBOBQgsrdOdfGEYea?dl=0

[Yna_Db]

Hi, Get Surrounding Elements seems to use a bounding box method:

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[john_pierson]

There;s also a good method of using Raybounce to grab ceilings discussed here.

Ceiling height to room parameter

I’m following the script that is explained here: http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/ceiling-height-in-a-room-parameter/ As result I have a ceiling height in the room parameter ‘comments’, but it’s not the correct one. How can I change my script so that the ceiling height is filled in in the correct corresponding room parameter? hoogte vals plafond naar ruimte parameter.dyn (19.3 KB)

[joris.vanbossche]

@Yna_Db, does this means that the Get Surrounding Elements doesn’t work for non-rectangular rooms?

@john_pierson, I’ve tried to modify your script so that it works for all rooms in my project, without selecting them, but than I get following error:

[john_pierson]

Are all of the rooms reporting a location? You may need to filter out unplaced rooms first.