2023 Analytical Wall automation

2023 Analytical Wall automation

bnickesonBDE9F
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2023 Analytical Wall automation

bnickesonBDE9F
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I'm sure I'm way behind the times on this, but I am just now doing my first analytical model with the new automation tool in 2023.  I've done it dozens of times in previous versions of Revit, but this is my first with 2023 (or 2024 for that matter).  As numerous posts here have documented, the Dynamo-based automation tool does not like to join wall corners or T-intersections.  Have there been any patches or updates from Autodesk that fix this issue?  I have several hundred of these wall intersections in my model that are messed up, and they are preventing me from exporting to my analysis software. 

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msgambelluri
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Could you elaborate on this more?

or could you post the links to the referenced forum posts that show the issue with the t-join wall corners or T-intersections? Thank you 

Marcello Sgambelluri

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bnickesonBDE9F
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https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-structure-forum/walls-in-analytical-model-revit-2023/td-p/11626...

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-structure-forum/revit-2023-analytical-model-issue/td-p/11101147

 

The above are just the first two I found.  Below is a simple geometry showing how the new Automation tool joins wall corners and intersections.  The only way I've found to fix this is to make every wall corner mitered.  There does not appear to be any fix for the T-intersections.  I spent about five hours yesterday manually moving the nodes in my analysis software to fix all of these.  My coworker eventually deleted all his wall panels and completely redrew them in our analysis software because they were useless coming from Revit.  If there's no immediate fix or patch for this then it's pretty awful of Autodesk to abandon a method of analytical generation for a worse method that lacks basic functionality.

 

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msgambelluri
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I see your frustration. It looks like the Automation tool to create the Revit Analytical Panels are "extracting" the joined geometry of the wall and NOT the center work lines and that is why the centers do not line up in the T and corner wall cases.

 

I use that OTHER dynamo analytical panel creation node in dynamo as shown below.

The input port accepts "Surfaces" and I extract the center surface from the walls.

 

It has some drawbacks including getting the height of the wall in every case and associating the analytical wall to the physical wall. But, I prefer this method than having to modify hundreds of analytical panels manually. Or drawing all the wall panels in the analytical software manually.

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Marcello Sgambelluri

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