Structural Column Location

[Einar_Raknes]

Try to change the columns to slanted…

Get Structural Column Start Point

Hello, I’m trying to get the Start Point of a Structural Column to allow the placement of a Structural Connection. The problem I’m having is in relation to the getting the correct Start Point regardless of Vertical or Slanted. If I use the Element.Geometry–>Solid.Centroid it places the point in the middle of the geometry which is wrong. If I use the StructuralFraming.Location this only works for my slanted columns. If I use Face.Vertices–>Vertex.PointGeometry I don’t get accurate X,Y,Z coor…

Structural Column Location

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