Wall By Face of Linked Object

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Hello,

I am wanting to use Revit’s native ‘Wall by Face’ command from a linked object. The linked object is ‘Structural Framing’ category. Because it is not a generic model or a mass, I don’t think that the spring node for creating a wall by selecting a linked face can work.

I have done the following steps thus far:

-Selected geometry in linked element
-Convert that geometry to a Dynamo Solid

From this, I want to create a ‘mass’ that I can use the ‘Wall by Face’ command on. The issue I’m running into is that it creates a directshape version of a mass. I’m not too familiar with direct shapes, but it’s still not allowing me to create a wall by the face of the object.

I don’t want to make this more complicated than it needs to be. Essentially, I just want to select a bunch of faces in a linked model and convert them to a wall in the main model.

Is there a better way of doing this?

Thanks!

Aaron

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Hi,
unfortunately, the DirectShape type does not allow the creation of walls by face, and Creating an in-place mass is not supported by the Revit API.

If possible, use the curve Location of the linked wall

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Hi @anordstrom how about wall by profile…could it help…

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instead of select link element you could try select link face from spring…but i couldnt get it to work in 2023…

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and if you wanna use pickwall by face you could
create a mass as here…

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or wall by face…

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Hi @sovitek

I am facing a challenge of creating curved walls along the edges of a linked element (floor type). This floor has a curved and sloped shapes along its edges. I tried your script but element.faces node didnt work.

The goal is to create walls supported along the edges of the linked slab (pic below). The walls need to have the top profile “join” or “flushed” with the bottom of slab.

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I really appreciate if you can help me figure out this.

I attached two rvt files
linked-slab.rvt (5.6 MB)
test-file.rvt (4.3 MB)
(one for test file and one for linked file)

Thank you

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Hi @Brian.Tran think its another case…but try take a look at @GavinCrump video here could probably help you…

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Thank you @sovitek . I will give it a try.

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