Good morning,
I am working on helping my team identify the height above or below the topography our man hole and hand holes are in a large model. Inside the model I have a Topography, and TopographyLink available and am attempting to utilize the TopographySurface.FindPoints(Outline) method, and have had some great results for just under half the elements, but for the life of me cannot get the other elements provide information. If I cut a section box, I see the element and the topography intersecting but its not finding a point within the Outline… I am only interested in the Z, and am not dead set on this method, just found it and thought it worked until I my team started double checking the values in depth. Codes a draft so still its a bit of a mess still.
import clr
import sys
pyPath = r"C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.7\Lib"
sys.path.append(pyPath)
import System
import System.Collections
#Access to Revit Document
clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
#To Get Doc, UI and Application Objects
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
#Needed to make any changes in Revit
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager
clr.AddReference("RevitNodes")
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)
clr.AddReference("RevitAPI")
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
from Autodesk.Revit.DB.Structure import *
clr.AddReference("RevitAPIUI")
from Autodesk.Revit.UI import *
from System.Collections.Generic import List
import traceback
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
uidoc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIDocument
app = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication.Application
activeView = doc.ActiveView
activeViewFEC = FilteredElementCollector(doc, activeView.Id).OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_ElectricalEquipment).WhereElementIsNotElementType().ToElements()
FECTopo = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_Topography).WhereElementIsNotElementType().FirstElement()
i=0
mTP = []
elemMaxTP = None
for aVFEC in activeViewFEC:
elemFamName = aVFEC.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.ELEM_FAMILY_PARAM).AsValueString()
elemLocation = aVFEC.Location.Point
zList = []
if elemFamName.__contains__("HEC_EQ - "):
minXYZ = aVFEC.get_BoundingBox(None).Min
#newMin = XYZ(minXYZ.X, minXYZ.Y , (minXYZ.Z -50))
maxXYZ = aVFEC.get_BoundingBox(None).Max
#newMax = XYZ(maxXYZ.X, maxXYZ.Y , (maxXYZ.Z +50))
outline = Outline(minXYZ,maxXYZ)
topoPoint = FECTopo.FindPoints(outline)
for tP in (tP for tP in topoPoint if tP != ""):
tPZ = tP.Z
zList.Add(tPZ)
zList.sort()
if zList:
elemMaxTP = elemLocation.Z - zList[0]
else:
elemMaxTP = elemLocation.Z - 1000
oldVal = aVFEC.LookupParameter("FOOTAGE").AsValueString()
if aVFEC.LookupParameter("FOOTAGE").AsDouble() != elemMaxTP:
TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)
aVFEC.LookupParameter("user filter 1").Set("Original Value: " + oldVal)
TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()
if elemMaxTP != None:
TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)
aVFEC.LookupParameter("FOOTAGE").Set(elemMaxTP)
aVFEC.LookupParameter("user filter 0").Set("Topo Validation")
TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()
zList.Clear()
i+=1
OUT = i, elemLocation, zList, elemMaxTP, oldVal, minXYZ, maxXYZ
