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Using Dynamo to indicate wall fire ratings

Using Dynamo to indicate wall fire ratings

From the course: Revit: Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Using Dynamo to indicate wall fire ratings

- [Instructor] This week I have a viewer request. Someone emailed me to ask if it was possible to create fire tape, drafting lines that represented the fire ratings of walls using Dynamo and I gave it a little bit of thought and came up with a graph that I'd like to share with you. So, yes, it is definitely possible. The graph that I've created is fairly simple, and it certainly could be improved, but it gets the job done so I'd like to walk you through that process right now. I also want to say that, while it is possible to do this in Dynamo, Dynamo is certainly not the only solution to this challenge. There are lots of other ways that you could deal with indicating fire ratings on your floor plans. One very common way to do that in Revit is to actually use filters, so I've got an example of that here in this file. So if I go to the Level 2 Fire Rating filters view, you can see that all of the one-hour rated walls are…

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