Hi is there usual way to clicking to select element to be listed to dynamo data?

Revit
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i got to make dynamo which is to select wall and create automatically make custom curtain wall by dynamo.
and i found this code created by chat GPT but it doesn’t work at all.
can someone review its code?

import clr
clr.AddReference(“RevitAPI”)
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

clr.AddReference(“RevitServices”)
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager

import csv

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

def select_element_by_view(sender, args):
try:
mouse_x = args.MousePoint.X
mouse_y = args.MousePoint.Y

    collector = FilteredElementCollector(doc, doc.ActiveView.Id)
    options = Options()
    options.View = doc.ActiveView
    result = collector.ToElementIdsAtPoint(XYZ(mouse_x, mouse_y, 0), options)

    if result:
        selected_element_id = result.FirstElementId
        selected_element = doc.GetElement(selected_element_id)
        
        # Define the path and filename for the output file
        output_path = "C:\\Temp\\"
        output_file = "selected_elements.csv"
        output_file_path = output_path + output_file

        # Create a list to store the element data
        element_data = [[selected_element.Id.ToString(), selected_element.Name]]
        
        # Write the element data to a CSV file
        with open(output_file_path, 'w', newline='') as csvfile:
            writer = csv.writer(csvfile)
            writer.writerows(element_data)

        print("Selected element data has been written to:", output_file_path)

except Exception as ex:
    print("Error:", ex)

Hook up the event handler to the RevitPythonShell events

RevitServices.EventHandler[simplemouseclickeventargs].Subscribe(select_element_by_view)

To unsubscribe the event handler when no longer needed, use the following line:

RevitServices.EventHandler[simplemouseclickeventargs].Unsubscribe(select_element_by_view)

2

Don’t use ChatGPT. Search the forum first, this isn’t a ‘do this for me’ forum.

3

This is not a surprise. Success rate is less than 5% even when asking for tasks in the help documentation that the tool was trained on.

4

Your solution is probably better found by googling “dynamo create custom curtain wall”
should you try one of the guides found, given it a good attempt and are still encountering issues.

That would be the time to post to this forum.

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