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Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:48:42 GMT

I am working an exercise of using Dynamo to randomize the curtain wall triangular panel colors. In order to randomize the panels, I need to select each panel. I created the mass with pattern (Triangle Flat). However, the Dynamo node can only select the panels from a real Curtain Wall element (See below the 6x6 rectangular curtain wall). It can't select and read the panel from the triangular pattern mass. Is there a way the Dynamo can read the panels from the mass (red)? or a way to make the Revit Curtain grid triangular?

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:56:18 GMT

Create a Mass > Divide Surface > Assign a Curtain Panel Pattern based to surface > run Dynamo script.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 19:58:19 GMT

The situation is . . . the Dynamo can only read a real Curtain Wall . . . not from a mass. See title.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:03:11 GMT

@josephclee wrote:

The situation is . . . the Dynamo can only read a real Curtain Wall . . . not from a mass. See title.

Curtain Panel Pattern Based is a curtain panel family. Dynamo will read it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEG6jiO7unA

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:19:18 GMT

Can you show me the Dynamo nodes will read the panels from a pattern base mass?

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:21:53 GMT

@josephclee wrote:

Can you show me the Dynamo nodes will read the panels from a pattern base mass?

It is the same one you use. Feel free to share the script here if you want a test run.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:24:00 GMT

The nodes in the image can only read a real curtain wall element but not from a pattern base mass. Why don't you try it?

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:27:13 GMT

@josephclee wrote:

The nodes in the image can only read a real curtain wall element but not from a pattern base mass. Why don't you try it?

I suspect you did not read the instruction carefully. Please read it again and watch the video. There is a step of assigning a curtain panel pattern based family to the divided surface. Did you do this step?

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:30:57 GMT

I already made the pattern base mass triangular curtain wall mass. It doesn't work for the Dynamo node. See the attached image at the beginning of the post. The red ring is a pattern base mass. It doesn't work for the nodes.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:32:36 GMT

You can create your Dynamo nodes and pattern base mass to prove it work. Please don't guess it will work.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 20:35:13 GMT

@josephclee wrote:

I already made the pattern base mass triangular curtain wall mass. It doesn't work for the Dynamo node. See the attached image at the beginning of the post. The red ring is a pattern base mass. It doesn't work for the nodes.

You keep saying mass. A mass is only the beginning steps of the process. There are more to it.

Did you create a curtain panel pattern based family? Did you load it into the project or the conceptual mass and assign it to the divided surface?

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

barthbradley — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 21:27:01 GMT

I don't see any panels in your screenshot. I see a 2D Triangle (bent) divided surface pattern.

The next step would be to create the 3D panel geometry in a Curtain Panel Pattern-Based Template and then load it into the Family/Project having the Divided Surface and assign it to the Divided Surface the same way you assigned the Triangle (Bent) Pattern. Note: Make sure the Material Parameter for the panel geometry is associated to an INSTANCE Parameter in the Family Types Dialog Box.

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Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

barthbradley — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 21:45:11 GMT

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 21:54:14 GMT

@josephclee wrote:

You can create your Dynamo nodes and pattern base mass to prove it work. Please don't guess it will work.

Okay you win. Your script doesn't work because it selects curtain panels based on their host (a curtain wall) and Pattern based curtain panels don't have a host. Use Select by Family Type node to select them instead. You can have one family type for each divided surface so you can run the script on each surface more easily.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 22:29:53 GMT

@josephclee wrote:

You can create your Dynamo nodes and pattern base mass to prove it work. Please don't guess it will work.

Randomize @ 200

Randomize @ 2700

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:18:33 GMT

Thanks for the graph. It works. Maybe the node I used was the problem. Thanks for taking time to show me the Dynamo.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 13:24:44 GMT

Will the Dynamo work if the mass is in the Revit model?

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:26:07 GMT

No. It only works in Conceptual mass family environment.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

josephclee — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:08:21 GMT

It works on the conceptual mass. The next step for me is making schedules for each of the panels to show the colors, size and position.

Re: Trying to make triangular curtain wall grid . . . not mass.

ToanDN — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 17:10:06 GMT

@josephclee wrote:

It works on the conceptual mass. The next step for me is making schedules for each of the panels to show the colors, size and position.

Load the conceptual masses in a project, tag each panel and create curtain panel schedules.