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Organize the room boundaries

Organize the room boundaries

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Organize the room boundaries

- [Instructor] When I use room boundaries to place families in Revit with Dynamo I reorganize the list of room boundary lines to have the line with the start point closest to the top-left corner of the room be the first item in my list of lines. I can do this by comparing each line in the list of room boundary lines to a point in the top-left corner of my Revit model. When I identify the line with the shortest distance to that point I can find its index value and reorganize the list of lines to ensure that I have a consistently structured list of lines to work with. In Revit open Dynamo from the Manage tab and click New to start a new workspace. I'm gonna right click on the Canvas and search for the Select Model Elements node click to add the Select Model Elements Node to the canvas. Inside of Revit I'm gonna select the two rooms inside of the rooms on the right-hand side of my project. I'm gonna click on the sunglasses and click Isolate Elements so I can easily select both rooms with…

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