What are Direct Shapes?

[Japhy]

To help answer this question I’ve made a video that goes through some of the differences between ‘Real’ Revit Elements and Direct Shapes, also see the links below for the latest Guide as well as additional Direct Shape resources. Thanks!

Rhino.Inside.Revit Fundementals of Direct Shapes

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2023/ENU/?guid=Revit_API_Revit_API_Developers_Guide_Revit_Geometric_Elements_DirectShape_html

Rhino.Inside®.Revit

[Japhy]

Direct Shape Materials in Section.

Add direct shape - Material Cut Pattern not displayed

@Japhy Do you know what needs to be changed in Revit to make its DirectShapes cut patterns? Where in the Revit API internals directshape needs to be modified for this to work?

Tags and Schedules with Direct Shapes Elements

Add Scheduled and Tagged Direct Shapes to Revit Example

A quick tutorial on bringing in Direct Shapes from Rhino that have Materials & Tags. [DirectShape Schedules Example Rhino.Inside.Revit] Revit file is 2022.1 (can be recreated in 2018 and above from the files below) Rhino 7 in Decimal Feet. Rhino.Inside.Revit 1.3.7983.15227 Requires Elefront Plugin eleFront | Food4Rhino 103-Add Scheduled Direct Shapes.rvt (1.6 MB) Rhino_Param_Breps.3dm (1.3 MB) Parameters-103-DirectShape.gh (13.7 KB)

When bringing in Geometry to Revit we always need to consider Revit tolerances.

https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/1.0/guides/rir-grasshopper#tolerances

[Japhy]

Adding a Custom Parameter Volume to Direct Shape

Is it possible to include the Volume when creating Direct shape objects?

Nice Martin, looks like you’ve got the gist of working with parameters on Direct Shapes.

[bim2016]

@Japhy, any chance uploading RVT? i’m curious of system family version of your column

[Japhy]

System Family is a bit of a misnomer there, its one of the Column Families provided by Autodesk. A Wall would accurately be called a System Family.