Currently when sending solids to a Revit doc, they must be sent as DirectShapes. Ideally we would have the option to send extrusion geometry as a proper extrusion. Since the API only allows this within the families, the best route would be to automate creating a family (from the Mass Family Template), placing the geometry, saving the family and placing in Revit for each solid being pushed. This would be reasonably easy to automate as we have all of these individual functionalities in various places already. It would be hugely valuable for many of our disciplines where we model Exclusion Zones, Equipment Volumes, Riser/Maintenance Volumes, etc, especially when these are to be viewed on 360 or by the Architect where we can not assume view filters and the like are enough to cover the representation of DirectShapes.
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Currently when sending solids to a Revit doc, they must be sent as DirectShapes. Ideally we would have the option to send extrusion geometry as a proper extrusion. Since the API only allows this within the families, the best route would be to automate creating a family (from the Mass Family Template), placing the geometry, saving the family and placing in Revit for each solid being pushed. This would be reasonably easy to automate as we have all of these individual functionalities in various places already. It would be hugely valuable for many of our disciplines where we model Exclusion Zones, Equipment Volumes, Riser/Maintenance Volumes, etc, especially when these are to be viewed on 360 or by the Architect where we can not assume view filters and the like are enough to cover the representation of DirectShapes.