Variable Curtain Panelling

[leis.ho]

I am a Rhino/ Grasshopper user transitioning to Revit/Dynamo.
I am trying to produce a variable facade panelling system that will finally work through an attractor point/curve- the image below was modeled in Rhino.

In trying to execute the same system in Revit, I have created a Curtain Panel family which i have then applied to a Generic Mass. The generic mass has 2 checkerboard patterned surfaces, one of which is indented and globally rotated.

I created the single unit family with a parameter - ‘bevelOffset’, which determines the innermost edge.
I am trying to use Dynamo to set individual values to that parameter for every panel; The value of said parameter will be deteremined by a measured distance, but for now I am just using the Z-values of each family instance’s centroid.

Through dynamo I have retrieved the name of the parameter, but Element.SetParameterByName fails.

Any ideas?

BowTieAttractor.dyn (8.6 KB) BowtiePanelOffset.rfa (756 KB) Bowtie-CurtainWall.rfa (664 KB)

[jostein_olsen]

Hi, first of all you need to change the parameter “bevelOffset” to an instance parameter since you want it to change per instance. Then maybe something like this?