Get min from beam bounding box

[Anonymous]

So, I'm having a beam which intersects two columns . I would to get the minimum point of the beam bounding box which is not inside the two supporting columns. I know that beam has a start point and an end point , also I know how to get his bounding box (but it retrieves the bounding box of all beam , also the parts of beam which are supported by the column). Is this possible ?

[jeremytammik]

Dear Daniel,

Sure this is possible.

Retrieve the element geometry.

You can get the beam geometry both in the original state of the beam symbol, before cutting with neighbours, and also after cutting with neighbours, through the GeometryInstance GetInstanceGeometry and GetSymbolGeometry methods.

Look at my setout point application to extract the vertices from the geometry:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/08/structural-concrete-setout-point-add-in.html

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/11/concrete-setout-points-for-revit-structure-2015.htm...

Cheers,

Jeremy

[jeremytammik]

Also posted to Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/32887737/get-min-from-beam-bounding-box