API & Dynamo

Crop Images in Revit

I always thought Revit should be able to crop images. It can resize and rotate them, so why not crop? Sure, Revit is not meant to...

Flux Site Extractor

Flux Site Extractor is a Flux extension app which allows you to import GIS information. It uses the building outlines and road centrelines from...

Copy and Paste Viewport placement across Revit sheets

This tool let’s you copy/paste the position of viewports from one sheet to another. It works by getting the viewport location with the GetBoxCenter method, and storing...

SmartAlign

Have you heard of PyRevit? If you haven’t, stop reading this and head to the PyRevit repo on github. Smart Align was inspired by Bim42’s Align...

Unconstrain #Revit Walls with #DynamoBIM

A coworker of mine recently had a need to unconstrain a lot of walls in his Revit model. Naturally, we turn to Dynamo to...

Import Shapefiles with DynamoGIS

A few months ago, I posted about how you could use the Elk package to bring GIS data from Open Street Map into Dynamo....

Filled region perimeter

Recently I had a scenario where I need to extract the perimeter of an atrium in order to calculate the smoke extraction requirements. This...

Get Floor Boundaries with SpringNodes

Finding the boundary lines of an element is something that I have been trying to do in Dynamo for a little while now. There...