How to get a Solids location in the project

[Anonymous]

I am struggling to get the true location of a Solid in a Casework Instance.

I can get the boundingbox of the solid, but the location is always far away from the Casework Instance.

I guess that there must be som kind of transformation method to solve this, but all methods that I have tried returns the same result.

Any ideas?

Jan Grenov

[jeremytammik]

Dear Jan,

Thank you for sharing your solution.

I took the opportunity of integrating that into the SetoutPoints add-in and migrating it to Revit 2017 at the same time:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/SetoutPoints

I did not find anything to clean up after all, once I took a closer look.

I were you, I would probably not have introduced an additional BboxInfo class, but used the existing Revit BoundingBoxXYZ one instead.

The Building Coder samples include an extension method for that class that can be used in a very similar fashion:

Util.cs > JtBoundingBoxXyzExtensionMethods > ExpandToContain

https://github.com/jeremytammik/the_building_coder_samples/blob/master/BuildingCoder/BuildingCoder/U...

The new SetoutPoints version including your enhancements is release 2017.0.0.3:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/SetoutPoints/releases/tag/2017.0.0.3

Cheers,

Jeremy