UNITS are confusing...!

[Mark.Ackerley]

Hi @saju_autodesk
Would you mind dropping a sample rvt & dyn which has the different elements giving different unit outputs?

Thanks,

Mark

Edit: as Martin Spence has just reminded me, if you get the parameters via Python as doubles, (unconverted) they will always be in imperial. This is reliable but more work…

Units in dynamo and python

Be aware when you obtain parameter values using python via API methods. It will return internal units if you do not convert the values: [image] From the example parameter, we can obtain the numeric value as a double or as a string representation: [image] String representation: import clr #Import the Revit API clr.AddReference('RevitAPI') import Autodesk from Autodesk.Revit.DB import * pipe = UnwrapElement(IN[0]) x = pipe.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.RBS_PIPE_OUTER_DIAMETER).AsValueSt…