Creating plates using excel info

[pedro_mejia]

I need to create a ton of plainer plate in revit I have all the coordinates need to create each plate in an excel I just need to know if there is a way to script this in Revit. FYI they are not similar plates each has a different shape imagine a star with flat points and each point changes. In AutoCad I could have drop the points and connected the dots with a lines then extruded the shape in a script can I do that in sketch mode inside of Revit. any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[jeremytammik]

Dear Pedro,

Thank you for your query.

This should be perfectly doable.

I see two feasible approaches.

You can either create a family instance for each plate, which is possible but rather convoluted and inefficient, or use a more efficient approach based on DirectShape elements.

It really depends on a number of other circumstances, your workflow, scheduling requirements etc.

If all you care about is just generating the plate shapes, I would suggest using DirectShape elements.

Here is all you need to know on that topic:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#5.50

I hope this helps.

Please let us know how you end up solving this.

Thank you!

Best regards,

Jeremy