Getting a Family Instance's Calculation Point with Dynamo and Python

Getting a Family Instance’s Calculation Point with Dynamo and Python

As you may know I spend some time over at the Dynamo Forum.

A question came up recently regarding how Rhythm handles family locations for the node FamilyInstances.Room.

In short, Rhythm does it more betterer and has more electrolytes.

That eventually turned into another question about “how to get the green dot calculation point with Dynamo.

Luckily we can do this in python in a pretty neat way:

and the code lives here for your copy pasta needs: https://github.com/johnpierson/dynamoPython/blob/master/revitAPI/familyInstanceGetLocation.py

Have fun! -johnP