Extract Square Meter from “Painted Surface” of stair
The Square meter will be shown in the parameter “Stair Surface Area” on the “Properties Palette” when the stair is selected.
The Area that is Shown in Column A was automaticaly generated inside revit schedule when I painted the surface of stair, but it seems that it can’t be use as an Instance parameter.
So I made a Type in parameter “Stair Surface Area” and manually copying the value from Column A.
Do we have a node that can do this kind of things automatically?
I have started to create a test file in dynamo but I’m not sure how it will work according to what we need.
yes definitely is possible, share the sample file I will try. In between, you could use get parameter by value and set parameter by value nodes for your needs.
He uses the surface orientation from an element to select the faces which are not facing up (in your case you need the faces that are pointing up) to get the area for his concrete forms. By using this method you don’t need to paint the surfaces before using the script.
Thanks for the kind words and sharing my example everyone!
Isolating face Z values is indeed a great method I use for lots of things. If it helps my custom package ‘Crumple’ has a viewable custom node that can filter surfaces by their Z value also. I think I called it ‘SurfaceClampZ’.
