topic Re: Dimension rebars in Revit API Forum

Dimension rebars

michael — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:05:28 GMT

Hello,

Is there a way to dimension the endpoints of a rebar horizontally and vertically? I can get the lines of the rabars with rebar.GetCenterlineCurves, but it seems that the endpoints of these lines cannot be referenced.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks

Re: Dimension rebars

Joe.Ye — Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:30:57 GMT

You can read the geometry data from the rebar by Rebar.Geometry property. This property requires an Option argument. you need to set the option.CaculateReferences to true.

Then read the edge of the rebar. and get the curve from the Edge object. Finally get the end point reference from the curve.

Hope this helps,

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Re: Dimension rebars

rnowak — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:11:29 GMT

Hi,

but this aproach dosen't give geometry of rebarsSet. There is nothing in collection.

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Options opt = new Options();
opt.DetailLevel = ViewDetailLevel.Fine;
opt.ComputeReferences = true;
opt.IncludeNonVisibleObjects = true;

GeometryElement ele = raber.get_Geometry(opt);

foreach (GeometryObject geomObj in ele)
{

...

}

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I even tried sth different, but got only one curve.

GeometryElement ele = doc.GetElement(reb.Id).get_Geometry(opt);

Could You help?

Re: Dimension rebars

Anonymous — Fri, 19 May 2017 02:32:19 GMT

Not sure whether you got the solution for what you were looking for. I was also looking for something similar and has posted it here. Please have a look.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/create-aligned-dimension-between-rebars/m-p/7083248/highlight/false#M22827

Also, if you have any better solution let me know.

Thanks