Place Steel profiles on curved Edge

[khalili_masoomeh]

Hello every one.

 is there anybody who knows how I can place a profile (Steel Profiles for example a rectangular Box) on a curved edge like what i showed in the image. if anybody also knows a way to solve it by Dynamo it would be fine. 

thanks in advance

[martijn_pater]

You can add as many parameters to families as you want, in-place or otherwise... then just dimension the length and return it in a (shared/scheduleable) parameter. edit: That's actually not as easy as I thought in this case, probably you will need Dynamo to do this.

[martijn_pater]

Actually you could add up the segment lengths manually and input them in a (locked) parameter as defined length perhaps, but probably Dynamo is a better option for that depending on how many you would need to do. Another option could be to divide computated volume with the profile's area.

[khalili_masoomeh]

thanks a lot for your kind reply. 

I 'm looking for a way to display the length of the profile when we go to Schedule . Is it Possible for in - places ? 

[barthbradley]

So this is all about reporting the length of the edge profile? I can think of a few approaches. What exactly are you modeling anyways? Can you post some pictures? How about your Revit File?  

[martijn_pater]

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@khalili_masoomeh wrote:

thanks a lot for your kind reply. 

I 'm looking for a way to display the length of the profile when we go to Schedule . Is it Possible for in - places ? 

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You can add parameters for in-place models while in edit mode same as in family editor. Also for material etc. Modify and open Family types under properties tab.

@barthbradleyThe .rvt can be found in post#10 as .rar file.

[khalili_masoomeh]

thank you. yes i see we can create any parameters but how you make it read the shapes Length for example. the material is ok but when we create a new Parameter as Length its value is 0 . how we can make it read the in -place's length. is it possible ? 

[barthbradley]

Thank you @martijn_pater. 

@khalili_masoomeh: can you post the RVT? Unable to open RAR.  

[ToanDN]

Here is a brief attempt.  I only placed a few profiles along the edge so the sweep doesn't match the host perfectly.  More profiles would give a better result.

[barthbradley]

@ToanDN: Is this the OP's base construct? The Basic Wall?  

If so, I can't imagine how you Revit could extract and Schedule ANY linear measurement from that shape or yours.  Even if it could, what would be the construction value of those linear measurements?  I can't think of any.  

Just fielding the question...

[ToanDN]

It can. I just did not do it for that model. Hint: reporting parameter based on length of divided spline.

Or, a calculated parameter: Gross volume / profile area (known).

Whether it is useful or not, I can't answer.

[vick1z]

Please look at this past post might help, Screencast done by  Toan. Thanks Toan

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-architecture-forum/purlins-on-curved-beams/td-p/7375485

[khalili_masoomeh]

thank you all for your kind helps: @vick1z  @ToanDN  @barthbradley  @martijn_pater  @hmunsell