Tutorial – Placing an Element Using Dynamo

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Placing an Element using Dynamo

By Edwin Prakoso
February 13, 2019

In the last tutorial, we learned how to add nodes and providing input. You define x and y value to create a point. You can’t place an element by giving coordinates, but you can do that with Dynamo easily. We use the point we created in the last tutorial as a reference for our column.

We want to place a family instance to our project. Expand the Dynamo library, under Revit, Elements, FamilyInstance. You can see that there are several nodes to place a family instance. Move your mouse pointer above a node. You can see the tooltip that describe the method of each node. Click ByPointAndLevel.

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