Analytical Automation to Top of Steel

[Ignus.E]

It would be nice to have the option when using the Analytical Automation from either Physical to Analytical or Analytical to Physical to be able to choose top of steel for beams. Because to nearest level does not always work as well as can be seen from the screenshot. If we don't choose to nearest level the analytical lines goes through the centroid, but then you have the problem where different size beams centroids causes offsets. 

[msgambelluri · Accepted solution]

Physical to Analytical OOTB Automation tool creates the Analytical element at the centerline using the OOTB dynamo node via "by (physical) element". If you wanted to automate the creation of the analytical elements at the top of steel, then you would need to use the dynamo node that creates the analytical elements "by curve".  See image below, this should get you started. You will need to change some of the analytical instance properties once the element is created but at least it creates it at the top of steel. Specifically you would need to add additional dynamo nodes to assign the framing size (type) and the associations to physical.

[jay_colcombe]

Although not ideal (I would categorically state this), is it more feasible to run the Analytical creation twice once for Vertical and Horizontal more uniformly placed elements and then again for the sloped members not to include the Align to Level Reference?

[Ignus.E]

Thanks Very much