Hello, I'm trying to insert a face-hosted family that contains a void extrusion inside a generic specialty equipment family. The scenario is the following:
- In the "parent" family there is a rectangular extrusion placed with Z = 100 mm and height = 40mm; the extrusion is created programmatically
- I've a rfa with a simple void cylinder. This rfa is a Generic model family and I've set "Cut with voids" to true
- I want to insert an instance of this void family inside the parent family in order to pierce the extrusion.
The code I'm using is the following:
Options opt = _commandData.Application.Application.Create.NewGeometryOptions();
opt.ComputeReferences = true;
var geo = shelf.get_Geometry(opt);//shelf is the extrusion
//location = 0,-800,100
//width = 1000
//depth = 800
//height = 140
//all measures are mm
PlanarFace pf = null;
foreach (GeometryObject obj in geo)
{
Solid solid = obj as Solid;
if (null != solid)
{
foreach (Face face in solid.Faces)
{
pf = face as PlanarFace;
if (null != pf)
{
XYZ normal = pf.Normal.Normalize();
if (0.0 < normal.Z && normal.X < 1 && normal.Y < 1)
{
break;
}
}
}
}
}
if (pf != null)
{
var location = new XYZ(50D.ToRevitMeasure(), -100D.ToRevitMeasure(), 140D.ToRevitMeasure());
var referenceDirection = XYZ.BasisX;
FamilySymbol symbol = null;
RevitBaseUtilities.DoSomethingInsideTransaction(() => familyDocument.LoadFamilySymbol(holeFileName, Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(holeFileName),
new FamilyLoadingDontOverwriteOption(), out symbol), familyDocument);
FamilyInstance inst;
RevitBaseUtilities.DoSomethingInsideTransaction(() => inst = familyDocument.FamilyCreate.NewFamilyInstance(pf, location, referenceDirection , symbol), familyDocument);
familyDocument.SaveAs(resultFileName);
familyDocument.Close(false);
The problem is that the cylinder is always placed in Z=0, attached you can find the hole family and the result I get.
Thank you!
