Improvement: Element.Geometry Detail Level

[rbosborne]

Currently - Element.Geometry pulls the "Medium" level of detail geometry from an object as best I can tell. I think it would be useful to give users the option to get the level of detail geometry they need (for instance - pipe fittings only display as solids in Fine)

So Element.Geometry would have a second input for the desired detail level. This could function either as a single value (much like the bool inputs in many nodes) or take a list input (allowing the user to input a mixed lists of Coarses,Mediums, and Fines that correspond to the desired level of detail of each element in the first input).

[andydandy74]

Personally, I'd like a dropdown node for the detail level. And while you're at it please add a View.SetDetailLevel node. :-)

[kronz]

Interesting, I wasn't aware of this behavior. I had assumed that it took the detail level based on the view settings. We'll take a look

[rbosborne]

Thanks for looking into it. I think this would be appreciated by a lot of users. We have grown accustomed to only having Medium, but there are errors there that some might not be aware of (like pulling geometry volumes from Medium - which might not be correct).

Category - All Elements of Category - Element.Geometry.

No specification of which view here at all since the idea is data mining the entire model (or linked model), not just a specific view. That said, i have tried in the past to get fine and coarse geometry to show in Dynamo using the Revit View settings, but it never worked for me. The only thing that worked was to mod the families and switch the med/fine geometry visibilities.

[dimven]

Just had to fetch the coarse representation of some MEP instances. Here's my temporary solution for getting the geometry at different levels:

[Amoursol]

Work is being done on this issue now 😊