Revit Line loads through Dynamo

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Hei Anders,

You have to use this metohod: http://www.revitapidocs.com/2017/2e299798-26c8-9e42-47de-d496151d1e3d.htm

C#:

public static LineLoad Create(
	Document aDoc,
	AnalyticalModelSurface host,
	int curveIndex,
	XYZ forceVector1,
	XYZ momentVector1,
	LineLoadType symbol
)

In python you can do something like this:

LineLoad.Create( aDoc,host, curveIndex, forceVector1, momentVector1, symbol)

The challenge here is to find the correct curveIndex. The surfaces boundary curves are stored in a certain order, and you need to find which index the curve you need has. You can use Dynamo for that, in this example I found the index of the line with the largest z-value in the midpoint of the lines.

with this script for finding the boundary curves:

import clr

clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
from Autodesk.Revit.DB.Structure import *

clr.AddReference('System')
from System.Collections.Generic import List

clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)


element = UnwrapElement(IN[0])

curveloops = element.GetLoops(AnalyticalLoopType.External)

if len(curveloops) < 2:
	OUT = [curve.ToProtoType() for curve in curveloops[0]]
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