Revit.GeometryReferences.Element to Autodesk.Revit.DB.Reference

[TurtleWolfe]

working on a dimensioning script, unfortunately the named references in the family instance are a quarter inch too wide on each side. I’ve extracted the surfaces I’m interested in and have managed to get
Revit.GeometryReferences.ElementFaceReference
from them, but all the nodes I’m aware for dimensing seem to want
Autodesk.Revit.DB.Reference
Is there a way to convert one to the other?

[chuongmep]

I guess you have problem same with me 2 year ago , it resolved in here :

Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry.Surface to Autodesk.Revit.DB.Face?

Definitely follow the advice on the thread @chuongmep linked to - if you’re in the Revit API context, stay there and don’t mix in ProtoGeometry calls if you don’t need to as its just bad programming IMO. However, if you are inputting ‘faces’ selected in Dynamo from from a Revit Element then it represents the face as a ProtoGeometry Surface. They are not the same thing, and there is no conversion method to answer your question. Instead, ProtoGeometry entities which derived from Revit elements ha…