Extract family instance 2D representation/symbol

[grubdex]

Hi there,

I'm trying to extract the geometry of the 2D representation of a given family instance.

For example, for this bed, I'd like to extract a list of segments with which I could recreate the bed (including pillow etc)

I've found this gold nugget by Jeremy Tammik, but it seems to extract only the outline, not what's "inside" the outline so to speak.

Thanks in advance!

[jeremy_tammik · Accepted solution]

The gold nugget that you refer to reads the entire element geometry and eliminates everything from it except the outermost enclosing loop. In your case, you wish to retain the internals. So, you need to retrieve the element geometry in a similar fashion and not throw away the internal bits and pieces. 

There are many ways to retrieve element geometry, and numerous samples demonstrating how to do so. Searching The Building Coder for get_Geometry produces hits in 113 different blog posts:

• https://www.google.com/search?q=get_Geometry&as_sitesearch=thebuildingcoder.typepad.com