topic Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors? in Revit API Forum

How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

fnakayama-D34 — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:38:42 GMT

I have conduit connectors on junction boxes families and I'd like to connect two boxes using a conduit.

I couldn't find any method to achieve this.

Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

jeremytammik — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:20:29 GMT

Dear Fnakayama,

Thank you for your query.

In general, Revit will automatically and happily connect everything that can be connected.

Of course, in order to achieve this, I assume that the boxes need to be equipped with connector elements.

Are they?

Furthermore, have you tested and verified that the connection you wish to achieve works as expected when you drive it manually through the user interface?

In general, if a feature is not available in the Revit product manually through the user interface, then the Revit API will not provide it either.

You should therefore research the optimal workflow and best practices to address your task at hand manually through the user interface first.

To do so, please discuss and analyse it with an application engineer, product usage expert, or product support.

Once you have got that part sorted out, it is time to step into the programming environment.

I hope this clarifies.

Best regards,

Jeremy

Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

Dale.Bartlett — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 06:19:18 GMT

Assuming you have (or get) the connector points, substitute the XYZ below:

 Autodesk.Revit.DB.Electrical.Conduit.Create(pDoc, type.Id, new XYZ(0, 0, 0), new XYZ(10, 0, 0), level.Id);

Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

fnakayama-D34 — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:50:34 GMT

Jeremy

Thank you for your answer.

Yes. I have created a conduit connector in the box. I can manually connect 2 boxes with conduit.

I tried conduit.create and this method only requests coordinates as parameter. I succesfully created a conduit between two boxes but they are not connected.

Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

fnakayama-D34 — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 16:57:36 GMT

Dale

Thank you for your answer.

As I replied to Jeremy, I used this method but the conduit didn't connect to the boxes.

Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

jeremytammik — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 22:42:04 GMT

What happens if you ask the connector on one of the boxes to connect to the connector on the other box?

Does it automatically create a conduit between them?

Please study this series of research articles on rolling offset creation:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/01/final-rolling-offset-using-pipecreate.html

Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

fnakayama-D34 — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 01:45:11 GMT

Jeremy Thank you very much and sorry because I took long time to reply. Yes, it worked. Thank you again.

Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

jeremytammik — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 07:54:01 GMT

Dear Fnakayama,

Thank you for your update and confirmation.

What was the problem? How exactly did you solve it?

Can you provide a sample code snippet demonstrating the crucial point?

Thank you!

Best regards,

Jeremy

Re: How do I create conduit between 2 connectors?

jeremytammik — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:33:07 GMT

Added a note of this to The Building Coder as well:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2018/03/connector-neighbour-conduit-transition.html#4

Cheers,

Jeremy