I am trying to get dynamo to provide the X,Y,Z of the start and end nodes of each column. To do so, I have realized that columns are not quite so user-friendly as framing is. So it looks like I have to use Clockwork to get Element.Location for the columns. However, when I do so, the Z value for e…

kulkul- I’m with Timon on this - what you showed only will work if the columns are slanted column. It is possible to change the columns to slanted, pull the locations and/or curves, then switch back to vertical columns, but that taxes the system pretty good if you have more than a handful of colum…

As an easier workaround you could pick the Z-values from the Max/Min values of a element boundingbox.

Hi, If you set your columns’ “Column Style” inside the Revit UI to “Slanted - End Point Driven”, you will be able to read their location curve: [2014-12-22_120906] [2014-12-22_121057] You can alternatively set the “Column Style” with the Element.SetParameterByName node, by feeding an integer: […

My first try was by changing the column style to “slanted-end point driven” and it worked fine except that I got a message to ungroup all columns. Seems that changing the column style cannot be done for groups.I also tried the Bounding box method, but it gives the “bounding box” of the column, not t…

You could try implementing some DS code for the BB method: [2015-01-05_161228]

Or you can use the X and Y from Element.Location node and just extract the Z-value from the bounding box method. Dimitars DS-code is way cooler though… :slight_smile:

Works perfectly, thanks. [Capture-COLUMN LOCATION]

Has there been a node for column location that I haven’t seen?

Hi @Timon Element.Location from clockwork package is one of the possible way to get column location.

Hi Kulkul, my current process uses that. But for typical vertical columns I have to generate the column location. Here’s my typical process: [image]

@Timon Another possible way: [image]

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