Create Family Instance By Geometry possible?

twh.works · September 16, 2019, 12:36pm

Hey,

Wondering if anyone has had success creating family instances by geomertry?

Trying to achieve something similar to SpringNodes FamilyInstance.ByGeometry (Dynamo).

Inputs: Geometry, Family Template, Family Name, Category, Material, Subcategory.
Output: Family Instance, Family

Any help is greatly appreciated.

kike · September 17, 2019, 3:39pm

Hi Tom,

I’m working on this, hope to have it soon.

kike · September 18, 2019, 5:59pm

Now is on the installer.
We have also added two other components called Family.Load and Family.SaveAs.

Please try those components and tell me if you miss anything.

twh.works · September 19, 2019, 4:59am

New components are working, thanks again Kike! Amazing stuff!

Result:

https://i.imgur.com/ig7kDQu.gif(image larger than 4 MB)

Graph:

taeyoon.kim · October 1, 2019, 4:01pm

Wonderful Kike !

Are there any documentations for this as well? Wondering what ‘cut’ is for instance.

kike · October 1, 2019, 4:19pm

I’m sorry but not, still no documentation.

‘Cut’ here refers to subcategories for curves in the family editor.

taeyoon.kim · October 1, 2019, 6:46pm

Right thank you !
I am trying this out right now.
Do we get element IDs as well?

kike · October 1, 2019, 6:56pm

If you need an element id you just need to cast your elements to integers.

taeyoon.kim · October 1, 2019, 7:34pm

okay I didn’t know that! so I can do this for geometries generated in Rhino/Grasshopper as well…?

kike · October 2, 2019, 10:15am

Rhino document object Ids are Guids instead of integers, but sure you can if you are referencing geometry from the Rhino document.

taeyoon.kim · October 2, 2019, 10:59am

I see - thanks! I was asking if the Rhino/Grsshopper GUID can be translated into elementIDs in Revit. I’ll try your new family creation method…!