Place revit family in same position of imported CAD Blocks

[pipita17]

Hi Everyone,

i am trying to create in dynamo a script that could automatically place a revit family in the same position of imported cad blocks, without the use of Excel. Can you give me some suggestion?

i would like to simply select one of the blocks and place a family at thesame position of all the similar ones.

Thanks in Advance

[architectcoding]

Have you checked this post?

CAD Block location

Does the GIF below demonstrate what you want to do? [20180607-cadBlockOrigin] If so, here is the python script to get the origin of a CAD import. import clr # Import ToDSType(bool) extension method clr.AddReference("RevitNodes") import Revit clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements) clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion) # Import RevitAPI clr.AddReference("RevitAPI") import Autodesk #Custom tolist definition provided by Dimitar Venkov #https://github.com/dimven/SpringNodes def tolist(…

[pipita17]

Thanks i will have a look at that

[jrs]

This worked really well for me. Thanks for posting. I tried to tweak the script so I could select multiple blocks within the same dwg file instead of separate blocks. Would be grateful for any help you could offer. Thanks.
Jon