topic Re: Create a newopening in Revit API Forum

Create a newopening

amati_p — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 16:27:09 GMT

Hi here, I want to create an opening in a wall and I want to know if you have some examples for this. I tried all things that I found on internet and on the forum and nothing worked. Is there someone to help me?

Re: Create a newopening

Mohamed_Arshad — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:53:09 GMT

HI @amati_p
Kindly Refer the below code

//Selection of Wall Reference refer = uiDoc.Selection.PickObject(Autodesk.Revit.UI.Selection.ObjectType.Element); //Get Wall Wall wall = doc.GetElement(refer) as Wall; //Diagonal Corner Points of the Rectangle XYZ p1 = new XYZ(500 / 304.8, 0, 500 / 304.8); XYZ p2 = new XYZ(1500 / 304.8, 0, 2000 / 304.8); //Create Opening using (Transaction createOpening=new Transaction(doc,"Create Opening")) { createOpening.Start(); doc.Create.NewOpening(wall, p1, p2); createOpening.Commit(); }

Other References

https://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2014/ESP/?guid=GUID-CA1FB5D9-49BE-40D6-B9AA-BFDE21B10C8D

https://www.revitapidocs.com/2021.1/06a216d4-2cf6-ec8f-df5b-10f007b70531.htm

https://spiderinnet.typepad.com/blog/2013/05/revit-net-creations-api-create-floor-and-opening-2nd-try.html

Hope this Helps 🙂

Re: Create a newopening

naveen.kumar.t — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:56:19 GMT

Hi @amati_p ,

In addition to what @arshad99 said, I would advise you to start by creating an opening in Revit in UI.
Analyse the opening element using the Revit Lookup tool and get the required points.
Use the points in the NewOpening() method.