Re: Cant get geometry of touching Foundation elements.
One difference that might occur when solids touch: an isolated instance may be able to use the unmodified family symbol geometry; touching instances may not, so they are forced to generate their own...
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Re: Cant get geometry of touching Foundation elements.
@jeremy_tammik Thank you for the quick response. I found a method to see if the geometry has been modified so i used that to separate the two different cases. It does create the direct shape for each...
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@jeremy_tammikI got the transform from the family instance however my solids still wont join. i would like to make the touching foundations all one solid so i can then use the vertical faces to make...
View ArticleRe: Custom added parameter displaying as '?' in tag.
Reading those forum posts I was able to pinpoint, I think, what is going wrong. It seems that the way I am adding parameters is not adding them to the shared parameters file as I cannot find the added...
View ArticleRe: Cant get geometry of touching Foundation elements.
Sorry its Friday and my brain is an hour behind the rest of the world. Please see below which works.//FORMWORK ONLY FOUNDATIONS if ((BuiltInCategory)elem.Category.Id.IntegerValue ==...
View ArticleRe: How to deselect occluded elements?
I'd love to hear about it if you got any news.Thank you!
View ArticleThe Future of Revit: AI, NLP, and API Limitations
Hello, I write this message with all sincerity, and I’m curious. I’ve been an engineer for about 25 years, working on mechanical installation projects. I closely follow the process and produce my...
View ArticleRe: The Future of Revit: AI, NLP, and API Limitations
Thank you for the interesting thoughts and concern. First of all, though, just to clarify what you are talking about, can you please define exactly what you mean by NLP? Wikipedia lists these options:...
View ArticleRevit 2025 Install Error
I want to install my revit on Data D, but its keep always said my C files is full. How can I dowload my revit to Data D?
View Articlereload keynote file
I want to write a command that simply reloads the keynote file. So far I've got the path to the file. The next step is to use KeynoteEntries.LoadKeynoteEntriesFromFile() which sounds simple because I...
View ArticleRe: make external API command available in list of commands available to be a...
Thank you for the response Jeremy. Just to clarify, is this what the developers are doing, editing the contents of the KeyboardShortcuts.txt file so that their shortcut appears on the list within the...
View ArticleRe: Geometry aligned Bounding Box
Is this still the case now that dynamo has a Z only axis aligned bounding box? Is there an API call for that?
View ArticleRe: Geometry aligned Bounding Box
Don't know about Dynamo, I'm afraid. In Revit bounding boxes are aligned with the global coordinate system three cardinal axes X, Y and Z.
View ArticleRe: Geometry aligned Bounding Box
Actually, the Revit API BoundingBoxXYZ class does indeed sport a Transform property: https://www.revitapidocs.com/2024/297887ab-69bb-548e-cfb6-a3a23f410604.htm I have not seen it used, though. It...
View ArticleRe: Revit 2025 Install Error
Sorry, wrong place for such a question: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/this-forum-is-for-revit-api-programming-questions-not-for/td-p/5607765
View ArticleRe: reload keynote file
Never heard of those methods. I asked Gemini for you, and it claims it has, though. This is what it says: https://g.co/gemini/share/7ac521ce9b12 Let's tackle this Revit keynote reloading challenge....
View ArticleRe: Geometry aligned Bounding Box
Thanks for the response. I want to elevate elements (curtain walls, windows, doors) to their exterior face. I know of a dynamo method to get only Z aligned BB around geometry to get a face I can use...
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CropBox bounding box
I need to find the crop box bounding box. In the API docs here:Revit Api doc / View Class / CropBox It's mentioned that: If I don't use the transform, the Min and Max values are incorrect. Should I...
View ArticleRe: Use Revit API from a web app
Hi, I was trying to understand where to start but this from the README looks broken https://marconi4revitwebapp.azurewebsites.net/ Do you have a time 30 minutes or something to talk a call about that....
View ArticleStore and manipulate model in APS
I need to store a simple beam model in APS then to update it's height or width from a web app Is this possible
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