Export xyz coordinates of structural layer of walls to xml format.

[Anonymous]

Hello Everyone, I'm very new to the Revit API so I'm looking for some direction. I am trying to export the coordinates of the structural layer of all wall types in Revit to an excel file format. I want to repopulate this structural layer into another platform. What would be the best way to do this ? Do I use Wireframe Builder for this Or do I just use Snoop to direct me to the correct linecurve parameters ?

Any direction would be helpful.

Cheers

Darren 

[jeremytammik]

Dear Darren,

Thank you for your query.

Good to hear that you are aware of Snoop and thus RevitLookup.

I assume you have worked through the getting started material?

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#2

Here is a quite complete sample demonstrating how to access everything you need to know about accessing detailed wall layer geometry:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2011/10/retrieving-detailed-wall-layer-geometry.html

It should be trivial to adapt that to export the XYZ coordinates you are after.

Various Revit SDK samples export data directly to Excel spreadsheets, and so do some of the ADN Xtra labs, so you can grab some code from there:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/AdnRevitApiLabsXtra/blob/master/XtraCs/Labs4.cs

I hope this helps.

Best regards,

Jeremy

[Anonymous]

Hey Jeremy,

We have been looking at the links you gave us, and have been playing around with the cmdGeometrypartsanalyzer. We cannot get the example to build because it was written in an old version. Is there any place we can download a 2017 version of this so it will build with Revit 2017 ? 

Also, we've been trying to write this in vb and we are getting this error when using the locationcurve. 

Is there another way we should be retrieving this information ?

Thanks for the Help  

[jeremytammik]

The most up-to-date version of The Building Coder samples is always available on GitHub:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/the_building_coder_samples