# How to place a profile family in the revit project

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-place-a-profile-family-in-the-revit-project/25865>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Created:** [September 13, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-place-a-profile-family-in-the-revit-project/25865 "2018-09-13T12:24:43Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 14, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-place-a-profile-family-in-the-revit-project/25865/9 "2018-09-14T08:57:54Z")

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Hi @S239147,

Maybe the link below can help you.

> **[profile family to ds polycurve](https://archi-lab.net/profile-family-to-ds-polycurve/)**
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> This past week I have ran into a post on the DynamoBIM blog that was asking about an easier way to get profiles from Revit into Dynamo so that they can be used as Profiles while doing sweeps and ex…

**I don’t know if the node still has issues, if so a possible workaround can be found here.**

> [@Creating a profile in Revit, and importing it as polycurve into dynamo](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/creating-a-profile-in-revit-and-importing-it-as-polycurve-into-dynamo/521/19):
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> Hi @mcooper4GXRR May be konrad is busy. You can try this script: import clr clr.AddReference('ProtoGeometry') from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import \* # Import ToDSType(bool) extension method clr.AddReference("RevitNodes") import Revit clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements) # Import DocumentManager and TransactionManager clr.AddReference("RevitServices") import RevitServices from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionM…

Kind regards,  
Mark

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