Revit Tip: Using Dynamo Scripting to rotate multiple Revit families to a specified angle

by Dennis Collin

There are several ways to rotate objects within Revit. In addition to the conventional Rotate command, Align and the Spacebar function are all useful alternatives in rotating columns or other objects to the required angle.

Fig. Utilising Dynamo to rotate structural columns.

However, I was recently asked if some columns could be rotated about their local origin. This can of course be done with Dynamo scripting. The script below looks quite simple but it’s worth noting that the out of the box SetRotation node requires an intermediate node from either the Archilabs or Synthesize package to convert the output from the selected objects to the required FamilyInstance format. The angle can be set by a suitable number input node as desired.

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