From the course: Advanced Revit and Dynamo for Interior Design

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Rooms with multiple boundaries

Rooms with multiple boundaries

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Rooms with multiple boundaries

- [Instructor] When Dynamo views a room with multiple boundaries, it creates a list of lines for each closed loop. If you're trying to offset the boundaries into a room, the inside boundaries and the outside boundaries need to be dealt with in opposite directions. Let's take a look at how Dynamo views rooms with multiple boundaries in them. Open Dynamo from the Manage tab, and click Open, and open the MultipleBoundaries_Start.dyn. Here if we zoom in on the room finished boundary node, and look at the output lists, you'll see I have two lists of lines. Inside of Revit in the architecture tab, I'm gonna click on the wall tool, and use the rectangular draw method to draw a rectangle inside of the top room. In the bottom room I'm gonna draw two rectangles. Now if I go back to Dynamo and look at the room finished boundaries, I now have several lists of lists for all the rooms. At list level three, is the list of lines associated with my second room. I'd look at list one, it's a list of…

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