Query line length

Geometry
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This seems to be so difficult for something I thought would be an easy starting point. Generally just trying to get to know Dynamo.

I have pulled in a group of lines from a current drawing, added them to a flattened list, and extracted one line. Trying to get the line length, or somehow identify the midpoint of the line so I can try to place a piece of text on the midpoint of the line. Seems to be that the only way to do this is to start writing code again…

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Thanks for the quick reply, couple questions,

Curves are the same as lines?
I don’t see the element.curves node in my list. Does the Dynamo for Civil 3D have less features?

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  • Lines same as curves.
  • The shot is taken from dynamo in Revit, I did not deal with the one in C3D.
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Well good to know curves=lines. I’ll have to dig around to see what the differences are with the Dynamo for Civil 3D

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Curves aren’t equal to lines. They are a special type of curve. Computationally speaking a Curve is any type of non-branching 2 dimensional object, including lines, polygons, arcs, circles, ellipses, NURBS curves, and polycurves.

More info can be found here: Geometry Overview | The Dynamo Primer

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