Automated Revit dimensioning using Dynamo!

There's no mistaking it, dimensioning is boring! Hopefully with this trick you can begin to find ways to take this task out of your job description.

I hope you enjoy the session and learn something new! Feel free to comment any feedback/questions below, or follow my channel if you enjoyed this.

0:00 Intro
1:17 References
2:35 Scripting
14:33 Testing
15:59 Outro

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[JaimeMartin-GilArroyo]

Si las familias a acotar estuviesen en un vínculo el funcionamiento del scrip sería el mismo ?

[linlai]

I would like to ask how to solve the problem if I want to mark the column edge closest to the axis instead of the column center.

[Coolener]

Can you help me pls? I dont undestand why i get 0 and -1 values in the "list.IndexOf".

[prateek]

Can we use this same method for rebars?

[ssaifali]

Can you please guide how to restore the dimensions after Mirroring the project

[atharvapurohit]

Hi Gavin!
I've always wondered what do you guys use for aligning the nodes?
Like at exactly 9:20 time stamp, you do a box selection and some temporary option for alignment appears.
I hope I'm asking the question correctly else do let me know for paraphrasing it.

Regards,
Atharva.

[rashedalawrtani]

Thank you for the very inspiring work! This, as usual, is very useful. Can you attach the explanation file? script ?

[marwanbeaino]

Thank you for the very inspirational work ! This is as usual very helpful.

[HiepNguyen-pzdr]

Hi! Thank you for sharing this amazing workflow. May i ask if there is a way to filter out those references with 0 distance? (for example there are columns placed in a same vertical grid that return 0 as horizontal dimention)

[marcotuliopinheiro]

I did the same thing in my dynamo in revit 2024, but in the last node every line appear like null, i have the ironpython 2.7 and 3 and all the organization of the lists are identical of the video. What could be wrong?

[juanramon]

hahahah Gavin really good one ! .... no Request to make 100 Videos about Dimensioning :-)

[nguyenminhkhoi]

Thanks you so much.
I tried to do and got the problem. I want to dim the window in Legend view but i can't get the reference. However, in other view i can get the reference of window.Can you help me for this ?

[jedsanford]

i built an absolutely cracked AIO dimensioning utility based on this video. thanks for the great content as always! btw you dont by chance know a node that creates subregions in topo from lines? working on the old floor topo problem lol

[just_a_statistic]

POINT AND GRIDS ARE AT DIFFERENT PLANES HELP

Hello,

I assembled my Generic Model. But this method doesn't work? What should I do?

[josephkirkpatrick]

Something strange is happening when I use it on mine. I'm running 2023.1 and even tested against the git hub and still ran in the issue. But when I run it, it does work and shows no errors. It creates the dims, but you can't see them. But if you nudge the grid lines, they show up. Any thoughts?

[mavs]

Great work, I just hope I would have watched this earlier.

[trungbuiduc]

I love your content. I've learned a lot thank you. I hope you will make some video autodim mep by wall. Thanks!

[inspru]

this is amazing, would it be possible to select a floor plan and one click dimension generate? i know there is one plugin that does it but its crazy expensive.

[abdlrhmanyoussef]

I built the script and run only for lines put didn't place the dimension
However the dimension type show the ID