Hi, I am using the Aussie BIM Guru’s video https://youtu.be/6W78HpuBXUE to place views on sheets by using an Excel file with sheet numbers and viewnames and a sheet in Revit with already placed viewports as a reference to find the right location for the viewports on the other sheets. The script is …

I have found the solution to place all 3 floor plans for the sheets! It’s done by counting the amount of views from the excel file, it looks like this: [image] So the script looks exactly like shown in the video of the Aussie BIM Guru with slight adjustments; The indices taken at the start for …

Trying to place 3 types of floorplan views on 8 sheets, this is what my lists look like: [image] With this I am getting all the views on index 0 on every sheet, so only the ground floor views. How do I change the sheet list so that all three views are placed on each sheet? This is what the excel …

That custom node was last updated in Jan 2018. I’ve had to change the Python code in that node in Dynamo 1.x already to handle multiple views or multiple sheets, cannot recall exactly. Change that Node to the Rhythm ones, the Create Viewport Node from that package will do exactly what you want here…

Thanks for the reply Bjorn, I managed to filter the script correctly to place the wanted multiple views on multiple sheets. I didn’t know Steamnodes was last updated in 2018! :sweat_smile: Will definitely give the Rhythm node you mentioned a try later on!

Yeah Steamnodes is a bit out of date - I didn’t use Rhythm as much when I made the tutorial for this one originally. See below for the Pythonic way to achieve this workflow if it is of interest also (Rhythm buries it in a ZT node, so helpful, but can’t learn from it :slight_smile:): # Made by Gavi…

I’m very interested in Python but for now I’m still depended on nodes since I didn’t learn Python yet. I hope to learn it soon by start watching your videos about Python soon!

Thanks Selim, the specific example above is covered in detail in one of my latest videos; [Python in Dynamo: Views to Sheets (API 2)]

@GavinNicholls dont develop BAD habbits :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:. If any other exception occurs you’ll never get to see it which makes it more difficult to debug, plus it just isn’t the proper use of try except (ambiguous code, unnecessary performance penalty etc etc). I’d avoid heterogeneous …

Thanks Thomas, I like it - wasn’t familiar with the ‘continue’ statement, only ‘break’. Would you suggest still keeping the unsuccessful view/sheet pairs as a null though? This way it’s all kept parallel when a vp fails to be placed. If I’m interpreting the above correctly, the viewports list only g…

No problem mate, great to see you’ve jumped onto the programming bandwagon! I suppose to answer your question in all depends on where its needed further down stream. My short answer would be no - if you are returning viewports (by way of successfully placed views) then that’s all that should be oth…

Thanks, enjoying the ride so far - get to put about a day towards it each week. I briefly delved into C# but doubled back to Python to keep exploring the API. I’m thinking I’ll maintain the output order just in case, but feed out nulls where the report detects the issues so they can be masked over …

Placing existing views on existing sheets with Excel and a reference sheet

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