How to draw grids, columns, beams, walls, boards

[Tom_Kunsman]

Welcome to the forums. Glad to see you are experimenting with Dynamo.

Please try the Search function of the forum to help you in your task. When you have some work, please come back with some screen captures and I am sure people will be willing to help you out. Not sure if these links will help, but found them from a quick search.

Create Revit elements automatically with Dynamo from Autocad

Hello: I’m starting a project that aims to read coordinates of Autocad. The idea is to create Revit elements automatically (Floor, beams, walls, etc) . Development this project with Dynamo is possible ?. Maybe have to develop it in VB .Net. Please your recommendation. David

Extracting Autocad Information

One way is to use AutoLISP to write a CSV of whatever data you want Dynamo to read. I have done that before. Another way might be to save-as DXF and parse that file. You can also try Data Extraction Wizard:

Calling layer information from AutoCAD import

Hello, We have a project where the topography changes constantly through design iteration and I’m trying to find a way to streamline the topography process by directly using polylines from CAD that a consultant gives to us to generate topography instead of having to remake or edit topography points manually one by one. However, I’ve run into an issue with some limited functionality on CAD imports into Revit. Please see a screenshot of the definition below for clarification: [topo]        …