Building Coder: Element Intersection

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Building Coder: Element Intersection

October 1, 2012, 09:15 AM

A common question when analysing a BIM is determining whether any of its elements intersect. This was actually surprisingly difficult to answer programmatically in Revit a few releases back, as some of the interesting uses of the FindReferencesByDirection method show,...

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