Dynamo: Data types and when a Point is not a Point

It's an odd experience to explain to folks that a "reference point" in Revit is not a point.  If you want a shortcut to get a group of people to say "WTF", that's the way to go.

While many Revit elements are called things that SOUND like regular geometric entities (Lines, Points, etc), they are in may ways much more.  Reference Points have hosts and workplanes, names and visibility properties, etc, as opposed to an "XYZ" which is just 3 numbers. The following video was done in Dynamo 0.3.4

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