I am looking for a way to automate view placement on sheets. The basic idea is that I can create a list of coordinates on a sheet and place views based on pre-determined grid sizes. The issue I am running into, is creating a divided surface, or somehow extracting the center-points of a divided surface.
I really thing a divided surface would work well, but it is cumbersome because I need to reference an element in Revit.
On top of that, I can’t seem to get the divided surface faces in Revit once I’ve created a divided surface. The existing nodes are very limiting.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to go about this? In Grasshopper, it would take me about 3-4 Minutes. In Dynamo, it has already cost me an hour.
So the solution I posed actually didn’t work. What I really wanted was the center point of each field.
This is what I ended up doing. (Very round-about way of getting a divided surfaces centroid.)
Create Boundary Surface
Get Isocurves at UV-parameters (I used number sequences, not ranges. Ranges broke and wouldn’t compute the last value of irrational numbers.)
Intersect UV-Curves and get order points
Rebuild Polycurves from ordered points, explode polycurves, create point at midpoint of subcurves, and rebuild polycurves again (this time at the mid-point of each field edge
Intersect Polycurves now running through the centroid of each field.
Re-order points so that they are reading from left to right, and top to bottom.
Nodes are not readable in your image. Try zooming in further and then use camera button (top-right) built into Dynamo - it screenshots the entire canvas. It will help others with similar query.
