Structural Framing x,y,z and length through excel

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I’m new to dynamo and it placing my framing family fine but setting the start and end point from the xyz input has been a bit of a struggle.

Over view of what I’m trying to achieve:
Excel generated layout with xyz start and then a overall length of the framing element

Goal is:
Dynamo to read the Family type from excel, and place those instances at the specified xyz coordinates at the set length

After this I plan to build this out as well to generate my columns as well

Issues so far:
Framing appears to be coming in at the center mark of a default length and I cannot manage to set the overall length correctly

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in order to create structural framing in Revit using dynamo you need two points or a line defined first
for structural columns you only need one point
so I would recommend you do the following
in your excel spreadsheet
create an x1,y1,z1 and then an x2,y2,z2
then bring that to dynamo then
in dynamo create a line between those points
then
in dynamo create a structural beam on that line that you created in dynamo bewteen the points you got from excel
the beam type you could still pull form excell

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Thanks Marcello, I had just figured it out as I saw this post

Just what I came up with, Thanks!

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Hello Marcello, your replies vert heplful for me,:grinning:
and I have more question…
you advised structural frames needs two points, but then, we only get a straight line.
If I want to make curved structural frames, how can I do that?
actually I want to draw curved frames that has two or more changing sections…

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Hi,
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