I am a structural engineer trying to use Rhino Inside Revit to drive the creation of beams and columns in a steel building. I cannot figure out how to make the beams join to the columns automatically, as they would if I drew the beams natively in Revit. What I’m looking to be able to do is accomplished in Revit using the two end join icons at the end of each beam, shown in the image below.
I know that the Revit API has access to this parameter (AllowJoinAtEnd), but I can’t find it in Grasshopper. Does anyone know a workaround to making these joins default? Without this default joining, the beams do not display correctly on structural plans, and there’s no point driving this from Rhino since I would have to go back and correct every single beam anyway.
From memory I had tried to do similar things in Dynamo, and I got stuck at this point, (this was when the structural connections was still a plugin for revit) - I could automate a whole building of hundreds of members of different sizes and profiles - but I had to manually adjust, rotate, and join each one, including bolt sizes, plate sizes etc… I remember the most annoying thing was opening up all the dialogue boxes and adjusting each plate etc, there was no way to make a template for gusset plates and custom bolts and weld conditions… if you find a solution for this, or even a partial one, feel free to post it here,
Use the python component provided in the attached GH definition. The definition grabs the columns in model, creates beams with default type on the top end of the columns, and then uses the python component to join the ends of the beam:
Hi, grasshopper community! Unfortunately this doesn’t work for me. Not sure why but this python script returns nulls and doesnt allow join for element SE.This feature seems to be really helpfull if works.
