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May 28, 2015

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Congratulations on your 1001st post!!

Thank you, Matt!

:-)

Jeremy,

Thank you for your wonderful site. I think I have a bit of a different type of problem for you though.

I am working on importing custom made walls (exported as DXF files) and would like to import them into revit so that they act as walls instead of a normally imported object. However, changing the family type of an imported file to a system family such as a wall seems to be about impossible. I have looked into importing it as something else, such as a window, but still have had no luck actually getting the imported object to behave like something else. Besides creating a new family and defining all parameters manually, is there anyway to get an imported object to behave like an already defined type?

Thanks,
Will

Dear Will,

Thank you for your appreciation.

Glad you like it.

Your question is not all that different, though.

Other people have done similar things in the past, even created entire university campuses and cities:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/11/creating-topography-contours-and-building-masses.html

As far as I can tell, I think the easiest way for you to go would be to implement an add-in to create the new wall elements programmatically directly in Revit.

Forget about DXF, just import the wall type, start and end point (or more complex curve data, if non-linear), top and bottom constraints (if vertical), and Bob's your uncle.

Here is a somewhat related wall creation sample:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/10/creating-a-sloped-wall.html

Cheers, Jeremy.

Jeremy,

Unfortunately, I need to keep the exact look of the wall intact. The DXF/DWGs I'm using are the product of a very specialized wall generator, the ShopFloor app. Is there any way for me to maintain the design characteristics of the imported CAD file while also giving it the ability to act as a wall within revit?

Thank you for your time,
Will

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