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Using Dynamo to place wall hosted elements like windows

Using Dynamo to place wall hosted elements like windows

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

Using Dynamo to place wall hosted elements like windows

- [Instructor] This week I'm going to address a question that came up on the Q&A panel for my Dynamo practical course. So there on that course page, one of the viewers asks about placing Windows along the wall and he was trying to use the same process that I outlined in the course for placing trees along a path. So right here he mentioned the placing the trees and so what we had done there in the course was a blind path on the ground and I just sort of placing the trees along there and I did reply and I talked about how trees were non hosted families and windows are hosted and that was really the difference. So in Dynamo you need different nodes for hosted and non hosted family placement. So I'm in an empty file here in Revit. There's no geometry, I just started from the default template. Let's go ahead and add a wall because of course windows and doors are wall hosted elements and I'll go to 3D and maybe just sort of spin this around a little bit. Look at that wall and then I'll just…

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