Mechanical Equipment - Transform Troubles

[gerhard.p]

Hello Dynamo Friends

I would like to use dynamo to rotate a Mechanical Equipment Family in 3 axis.
Placing the family with dynamo works as expected and the family can manually be rotated in 3 axis.

Transforming the Family with dynamo only works if the transform is a rotation about 1 axis, the vertical axis.
Transforming with a rotation about more axis leads to a family that is vertical and then even the rotation around the vertical axis gets messed up.

The behavior is the same no matter if “always vertical” is checked or not.

I only want to do this simple transform:

I´m really a noob at building families so maybe there is some setting I´m missing that could help me?

In another thread i figured out how to transform adaptive families, but it turned out I can not use the because of major problems with dwg visibility:

That’s why I wanted to use mechanical equipment families but I´m failing hard.

Any suggestions what else I can try, or have you ever seen someone successfully rotating families in 3 axis with dynamo? Happy about any advice!

Adaptive Family - Transform Troubles

Hello Dynamo Friends I have a script to place these lighting families: [image] The script also attempts to rotate this family by 3 axis, but in revit this is not possible at all. I have to go the workaround to nest the family in an adaptive family. So I changed the graph to work with adaptive families: [image] This works by building a source and target coordinatesystem for every instance. [image] As I now had no “FamilyInstance.Transform” node to convert from one CS …

[jacob.small]

@gerhard.p

I can not use the because of major problems with dwg

Well there is your problem… Have you considered not using a DWG and instead using the lines to generate native content?

If you were to manually place this family, how would you manipulate it? One thought would be to host the family to a reference plane; painful to have to build (or otherwise identify), but that should be able to achieve what you are after.

[gerhard.p]

I experimented with detail items as symbols but they are only visible in views that are exactly orthogonal, and so not visible in 3d. I use dwg because I thought it´s the only possibility. If I could just make a filled region in the family and put that on the faces that would be great, but I don´t know how that should work.

I don´t want families hosted to reference planes, I just want to be able to rotate them free, like it is possible with the adaptive families and also the mechanical equipment families. Defining a workplane and rotating is what i want, no need for reference objects or parameters.

[jacob.small]

@gerhard.p

Defining a workplane and rotating is what i want, no need for reference objects or parameters.

The former requires the later (if you were to define a workplane in the Revit user interface, you’d have to draw a level, reference plane, or pick a face)