Get connector plane or direction of the conduit

[allan.moraes]

Hey guys,

I'm trying to obtain the plane that a connector is placed at, to later get the normal of that plane and now which direction the conduit must start going to before taking a turn to align with another element's connector.

I saw that there is the Angle property in a connector, however all the times I tried recovering it, it came 0. I didn't see any other way of getting the direction/angle on the XY plane of that connector. Does anyone knows how to do something close to that?

Thanks,

[smarente1]

You can get the direction of the conduit which will be the same direction as its connector. 

direction = conduit.Location.Curve.Direction
#Angle in degrees:
print(math.degrees(math.acos(direction.X))) # Out --> 150 degrees

[allan.moraes]

Hey @smarente1,

Thanks. That would definately work, but I won't have the conduit. The app creates the conduit between two FamilyInstances selected by the user, and uses a not connected conduit to start the route from.

Any ideas for that case?

[smarente1]

The two family instances selected by the user will each have a location point. If you have two points you can calculate the angle of a line segment that connects the two points. 

[Kevin.Lawson.PE · Accepted solution]

If you know what connector on the conduit fitting you want to connect to, you can get that connector direction by FamilyInstance (Conduit Fitting) -> MEPModel -> ConnectorManager -> Connector -> Coordinate system -> BasisZ. 

[allan.moraes]

Awesome @Kevin.Lawson.PE!, thanks!