Hey all, Just a query on whether or not this is possible… Would you be able to have a Structural Model open, query the Architectural model for locations of all windows/doors, then query their “openings” (As hosted in family), before creating “openings” from those polycurves in the structural walls…

Hi, you can get the latest version of spring nodes and try the “Collector.LinkedInstanceElements” node. It fetches the transform of the linked file and you can use that to modify the location of the extracted geometry: [2015-11-28_18-43-57] Try it out.

Idk, what your Revit API familiarity is, but it would have to go like this: get desired elements from the linked file. without investigating this I am not sure if you want to collect walls or windows to get the openings. I am going to guess Windows. Then from windows you can get walls that window…

Sol- I’m not saying this is impossible as I have done something similar to use a linked file (generated from RAM Structural) to change all of the framing meta-data in my model. But I do think that the way Arch/Struct look at walls and how we define openings will cause some difficulty. Couple of t…

Thank you kindly for the in-depth replies gentlemen, I think I’ll need to brush up on my Revit API skills before attempting this one (Currently slim to non-existent). It’s the kind of practical problem we do have in house though and I do wish Autodesk would solve this particular issue. I work in an…

Theoretically, would the following workflow be easier? 1)Manually copy all the windows and doors from the arch model and paste them into the structural model. 2)With the help of Dynamo, create new structural window and door family types, based on the architectural ones 3)Replace the family type o…

That workflow has a lot of merit Dimitar, I might have a play and see if I can manage something along those lines first. Should be easy enough to read something from within a single file.

Love the conversation. I am looking to create an automated version of Dimitar’s workflow (without the manual copy/paste into place) This week we experimented with Konrad’s node (select elements from linked file) [CopyfromLink] It worked really well. The elements however came in offset …

The API method always extracts the location based on the origin of the linked file. I guess you could try querying the survey point coordinates, creating a vector from that and adding it to each extracted location point.

Hi Dimitar, I have the same problem, i try to get the clashes between structural Columns/Beams/Walls…etc and the MEP Ducts. It seems that when i import for instance all the columns in Dynamo, all is good but when i import the ducts from the linked file …the geometry is far away…both models are lin…

Hi Sol Amour This one is for you!

Very cool man! Thanks for working that little gem out.

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@Yna_Db thank you. I have opened a new topic here: Querying rooms from linked models and cutting/pasting them into the main model

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