Hello all!
I'm attempting to pull physical property information from a Revit Model (dimensions and resistance values, in particular) and organize that information to be exported as specific variables.
To expand slightly, for an independent study I want to perform energy balances on Revit Models, starting simple and building from there. The goal is to write code that collects information from a Revit Model and then organizes it into variables such as "Total Wall Area", "Insulation Resistance", "Drywall depth", "Total Window Area", etc. that could be then sent to a model (or simply a spreadsheet) and stored as such.
I hope that makes some sense.
Given that I am a novice coder and would prefer to write in Python, does anyone have any advice or resources concerning an efficient (simple) path to go about importing and organizing specific parameters from a Revit model?
Is it necessary (or realistically necessary, given the humble extent of my knowledge) to use the Revit API to accomplish this task?
A brief background, I have next to no knowledge of Revit or APIs in general, basic knowledge of coding in Python and really want to learn more!
Any help you are able to give is absolutely appreciated! I'm also happy to answer any questions that come up.
Thank you for reading and have a terrific day!
