Nodes to create family geometry (extrusion, ...)

[schiette]

What is the problem that needs solving?
Most export workflows from Dynamo to Revit rely on directshapes which are pretty much non-editable from within Revit. However, there are many cases where the geometry might be simple and can be captured with the Revit geometry tools.

Example: we have a script that creates the massing of a site (neighboring buildings). Every house is a simple extrusion in dynamo. When it comes into Revit, it's a frozen object and cannot be finetuned. It would be much better if we could draw extrusions in Revit from Dynamo

How would you like to see it solved?
A node "create extrusion" with inputs: curve, extrusion start, extrusion end (other options like 'material' would be a plus)

Describe alternatives you've considered
Writing the node myself, but I think it's better to have it in a package that is widely distributed and well maintained like Clockwork.

Additional context
I posted a Revit idea for this, and someone posted a couple of code snippets in the comments there:
https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/create-revit-extrusions-sweeps-blends-from-within-dynamo/idi-p/7594544

Jeremy Tammik has also posted about it:

https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/creating-and-inserting-an-extrusion-family.html

Other shapes (revolve, sweep,...) would be a plus, but I think the extrusion node might get the most use by far.

[schiette]

Sorry Andreas, only found the existing issue now. You can close this one. I subscribed to the one you posted.

#279

[andydandy74]

I actually like yours better, so I've closed the other one :-)