# How to get elevation correctly?

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-elevation-correctly/57795>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Created:** [November 29, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-elevation-correctly/57795 "2020-11-29T03:14:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xiaofei\_Ying](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Xiaofei\_Ying](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Xiaofei_Ying)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 3:14am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-elevation-correctly/57795/1 "2020-11-29T03:14:51Z")

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The elevation in Revit (2021) is 0.6m, while using bounding box max point, it shows 0.5m  
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**Author:** ![Kulkul](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/kulkul/32/49801_2.png) [@Kulkul](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Kulkul)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 6:22am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-elevation-correctly/57795/2 "2020-11-29T06:22:44Z")

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Hi @Xiaofei_Ying

Try getting the bounding box directly from Element using Element.BoundingBox OOTB node:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/1/4/14b5ecba2bd80a93fa960fcd195b6a3dea15ada4.png)