LocationPoint Rotation

1

Hi All,

I’m looking for how to get the rotation of an element using Dynamo. The value I’m looking for is in the following image:

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Any tip of advice will be very well received!

Regards!

2

The goal here is to get the True North Rotation for some elements (Structural Columns).

Thanks in advance. Any tip of advice will be very well received!

Regards!

3

If you are able to obtain the element’s location you can easily get its rotation (in radians) using something like this:

import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

def get_rotation(e):
    location = e.Location
    if isinstance(location, LocationPoint):
        rotation = location.Rotation
        return rotation
    return 0

element = UnwrapElement(IN[0]) # Assume single Element
# Otherwise, implement for loop to process elements individually
OUT = get_rotation(element)

I believe North should be 0 radians, but you should probably verify that this is how Revit treats rotation as well.

4

Thanks a lot @cgartland.

Regards!