Hello I’m a beginner when it comes to dynamo and scripts as a whole so apologise if this is a simple ask ! I’m using a script that was developed in order to import CAD lines into a REVIT format but I’m wondering if there is a way to bring text associated with it across aswell ive done some digging …

Hi, Unfortunately I’m not sure this is possible without exploding your CAD in Revit… [image] Data attribution using information from a CAD file Revit Unfortunately text elements within a DWG or DGN are not exposed in the Revit API (and therefore Dynamo), which means there…

Actually, I am pretty sure you could use the AutoCAD api to pull the data that way. No publicly available package I know of exposes it, but you could look at the LinkDWG package for other element types and decipher where to go from there.

Hey, good shout… This is in LinkDWG… It backgrounds opens the CAD file… any suggestions on casting a System._ComObject to a Text Element or reading it’s information?! :smiley: [image] Edit: It looks like the Python contains the code that the OP was trying to use…

Hi thanks for all the information provided ! ill have a bit more of a play around today with this new stuff and see what happens ! Anything else that may help would be much appreciated aswell !

A bit more digging around in the Link Dwg package got this… [image] Hope that helps, Mark

Hi Mark, The Manage.RemoveNulls Node what package is that from ? cant seem to find it on LinkDWG

Hi Harry, I’m not sure which packages you have (I’d recommend getting the top 10/15… https://dynamopackages.com/ also Orchid https://github.com/erfajo/OrchidForDynamo ) There are many nodes for getting rid of nulls, that one happens to be from Lunchbox :slight_smile: Cheers, Mark

Could also try a data extraction.

Yes it is possible, I was looking at your node… I manage to get all the text from Cad to Text note … thank you [image]

Hi Did this bring the text from CAD to revit ?

Importing text from CAD to REVIT

Mark.Ackerley March 14, 2019, 9:26am 6

A bit more digging around in the Link Dwg package got this…

Hope that helps,

Mark

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