How do you move a curtain wall grid line?

ssw9UZNL · February 14, 2021, 8:06pm

Hello- could someone please tell me how to move a curtain grid with the api- when I look at the docs it looks as if this member was made obsolete after 2015

and want to know what has taken its place?

thankyou

john_pierson · February 14, 2021, 11:15pm

github.com

johnpierson/RhythmForDynamo/blob/5c842891392710d1f84561052a3c7fc146b4e66b/src/Rhythm/Revit/Elements/CurtainGridLine.cs#L119


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/// <summary>
/// This node will attempt to set the location of the given grid line to the given point.
/// NOTE: This will "translate" the grid line parallel to where it is initially. We cannot move a U grid to a V grid and so forth.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="curtainGridLine">The curtain grid line to try to set.</param>
/// <param name="newLocation"></param>
/// <returns name="curtainGridLine">The translated curtain grid line. (Returns null if failed)</returns>
[NodeCategory("Actions")]
public static object SetLocation(global::Revit.Elements.Element curtainGridLine, Point newLocation)
{
    //the current document
    Autodesk.Revit.DB.Document doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument;
    //cast the grid line to the internal Autodesk.Revit.DB representation
    Autodesk.Revit.DB.CurtainGridLine internalCurtainGridline = (Autodesk.Revit.DB.CurtainGridLine)curtainGridLine.InternalElement;
    //obtains the grid line's full curve and closest point on it's curve to calculate the vector with
    var fullCurve = internalCurtainGridline.FullCurve.ToProtoType();
    var firstPoint = fullCurve.ClosestPointTo(newLocation);
    var vec = Vector.ByTwoPoints(firstPoint, newLocation);
    try

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