Extend & Shrink in Revit
February 2025
❝ Revit sometimes makes simple things way more complicated. ❞
💡 I found that extending multiple elements is one of them.
So, I made a small Revit button that extends or shrinks elements based on screen directions, similar to Microsoft Word alignment tool. Coding tip at the end.
I am probably (very) biased but I like it is simple and helpful with different elements like walls, conduits or beams (any linear element actually)
📌 If you want to watch the video:
PS: This small tool is in nonicatab pro.
💻 Coding tip: Used doc.activeview.rightdirection or updirection to know where users want to extend or shrink the elements based on the screen orientation.
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Jaime Alonso Candau
Director at Nonica.io | Contributions to RevApiDocs.com, pyRevit or Dynamo.