Stop Wasting your Time on Revit Sections. Automate with Revit API!

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📝 Video Summary:

Stop Wasting Your Time on Revit Sections! It's time to Automate this process with Revit API. I will teach you everything you need to know about creating sections.

We will create a custom Revit Add-In together using Revit API and python. We will get all window types in Revit project, and create for each:
- Elevation Section
- Cross Section
- Plan View
So by the end of this video I will create 346 sections in just a few Clicks. And most importantly I will teach you all the steps so you can apply the same logic to other elements as well. So get comfortable, and enjoy this tutorial on section automation in Autodesk Revit!

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🎬 Chapters:
0:00 Let's Talk About Sections in Revit
0:30 How to Create Section in Revit API?
0:57 Brainstorm the Automation steps
1:56 Get and Sort Windows
5:45 Get Window Origin
6:23 Calculate Wall Vector
7:44 Get Window Dimensions
10:45 Debugging Parameters
13:20 Create Transform (Origin + XYZ Axis)
18:20 Create SectionBox
21:35 ViewSection.Create
22:40 Create Unique Names
24:15 Last Touches
25:05 Create Window Sections (Elevation)
26:35 Transform for CrossSection
29:15 Transform for PlanSection
30:25 The Next Step?

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⌨️ Happy Coding!

Tags: #LearnRevitAPI #RevitAPI #pyRevit

[ErikFrits]

👉If you want to get the source code check out my LearnRevitAPI Blog 😉
I left the link in the description so you can follow along this tutorial in a written format as well.

⌨Happy Coding!

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[seanspence]

You just got a new sub. I'm just starting my Revit python journey! Good job explaining everything. It's exactly what I need to start understanding how to work with Revit and Python.

[miguelbenavente]

Your videos are so well made. Respect.

[alhaj]

Hi @Erik, thank you for your efforts,
I fallowed your concept and code to make sections and plans for Curtainwall I glad and happy that I managed successfully to create sections and plans

[BharatDarshanyou]

Hi @Erik, very nice scrip and details explanation.

I was wondering if you can showcase how we can utilise it to create Core Plans and Elevation for full height ( i mean from Foundation to till Roof elevation) and also we create plans views for deferent levels showing all walls of a core system

[WorldDatainBars]

Any thoughts on doing this with elevation view type rather than section view type?

[RafaelMartinez-jnxs]

Do you have a video on EventHandlers, parameter updaters, etc?
I am looking for way to monitor parameters for 2 elements so that if a parameter of the first changes, then the parameter of the second also changes.

[piotrchoromanski]

Thank you very much for the wonderful material. I am a beginner in API and trying to extend the functionality of the script.
Is it possible to create sections by giving them a view template of my preference?

[Rik_Kuipers]

Hey Eric, The script is looking awesome. I wanted to go a little bit deeper and to create a filter so that i can get only section views each specific window type. I just can't figure out how to do it do you have a solution or a tip to look at?

[rezwanulhoque]

As we see, windows plan view created in upwards direction, but needs to create downward direction, how to do that?
I tried already, it doesn’t work.

[carlosarturogomezaguirre]

Hey! Do you think that we can use it for structural detailing? thinking in beams reinforcement. May be once a 1/3 L.? F*ck i need to learn this

[mohammedrashid]

Hi Eric, I managed to install it on the system. but it's not showing in the toolbar. is there any other to check? but in the extension list, it's showing installed and enabled. could you please help me with this?

[LuisFelipe-xfmh]

"Stop wasting your time..." said the guy with the 30minutes videos with a very complex knowloedge wich certainly would help me for my entire life but would take a veeeery long time to learn to do this!