Thank you so much, I dint Understand this initially I had to read about concepts of external events and how it works to make it work, thanks for pointing me in the right direction.!
I am attaching the code here just in case if you or anybody else can show me a shorter way of doing this.
Hi,
1. No need to perform it on every symbol, only one per Family will do (Family types can't be different!)
2. Do you need this info for all Families in project or only used (instance placed) ones.
The second is easy to perform and fast, for the first the family itself should be inspected. (EditFamily )
- Michel
Hi,
Always think how it's done in the UI, you override the element in view.
look at View.SetElementOverrides
Also here one of the 16 pens should be selected, the width's of the 16 pens can only be discovered in the UI can't be done in the API.
- Michel
Do you just want to display an image on the screen?
Or do you actually want to load the image into the view as an ImageInstance?
In the second case, I think you will have to save the image from memory to the drive first.
Hi Jeremy
I'm really looking forward for the fix REVIT-161421 being published. Otherwise, we wont be able to publish our new feature to our customers.
Thanks again for raising this tricky issue, and to Scott for his illuminating solution. Preserved for posterity here:
https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2020/04/references-in-symbol-versus-instance-geometry.html
I had the same exact problem and it seems that setting the parameter with the FamilyManager afterward fixes the problem.
If it doesn't work straight away, try to doc.Regenerate() before setting the parameter.
You were right. The problem was on the user machine. Uninstalled and reinstalled MS Office... now works as expected.
Thank you.
Regards
Corinne
The problem was on the user machine. After he uninstalled MS Office and reinstalled it the error disappeard. Now the add-in works as expected.
Thanks to you and other forum posts (https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2016/10/how-to-create-a-new-line-style.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fthe-building-coder+%28The+Building+Coder%29)
I decided to create differents Line Categories then I apply them to my DetailLines. Here is my code :
I need to specify line weight in mm. As this is not possible I thought about alternative solution :
For example : if I need to set 1mm to the line, I browse the the line weight table (1 to 16) and select the closest value to 1mm.
The issue I'm facing is : how to get le dimension each line weight (1 to 16) (Example : how to get the size in mm of LineWight 1)
Do you have a solution for this ?
Thanks a lot
Hi,
I'm facing to the same issue.
Did somebody has a solution for this ?
Thanks in advance
Hi, like I said the weight applied to each of the 16 pens can't be retrieved by the API!
You know where to set the weights per pen/scale? else, see image below.
Depending you're addin either let the use chose a pen (1-16) like in UI or make you're own convertion table pen-width in mm, which could be/become different from project if someone changes the UI settings weights and won't match anymore.
Also depending the type of line/object and viewtype the weight can be different per scale (if setup in UI, see image)
Personally I would forget about the mm thing and let the user select one of the 16 pens
Or I must be something missing about you're story?
- Michel
Hi,
Thanks for your support. I'll give up the idea getting the weight of line as it's not accessible via api.
The plugin I'm developping must design lines (in ViewSheet) with a specified line weight in mm.
Hello,
If in the first case you mention you mean something like displaying the image on the screen outside the context of Revit or the view, like overlaying it so to speak, the no, nothing like that. I want to do something closer to the second case but without having to use ImageInstance nessecarily. I want to place the image within the view at some coordinates in such a way that it is spatialy related to the rest of the buildings/elements existing there. But I need this to be done without having to save the image in a local file, just load it to the memory when it is needed by my addin.
Going into more detail on what i've considered doing, if this is of interest, I've though of two interfaces in Revit API which appeared promising, but I hit a wall with both.
One was the DirectContext3D API, where I hopes to create a simple planar entity and use the image as a texture for the material. Unfortunately, it seems that DirectContext3D does not support textures yet. Except if I missed something, but it was also explicitly stated in this presentation: https://www.autodesk.com/autodesk-university/class/DirectContext3D-API-Displaying-External-Graphics-Revit-2017#video
The second thing that seemed promising at first was ITransientElementMaker, thinking that I could import a temporary image object through that, but then I had these problems:
First, I found almost no examples of how to use the interface (what should go in the Execute method? What types can I use? DO I need a Transcation?).
Second, I found these answers which seem quite discouraging:
a. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/document-maketransientelements/td-p/7774471
b. https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/display-an-overlay-image-placemark-on-revit-3d-view/m-p/8168195
Thus I am kinda out of ideas, my conundrum magnified by the fact of having a much stronger background in AutoCAD than Revit...
Hi
In an opened Document, I make a loop on all FamilySymbols (isEditable = True).
For each Family, I make an myDoc.EditFamily(Family of loop)
My problem is, I'd like to Ignore warnings message of contraints.
Is it possible?
I've tested what Jeremy said here :
https://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2010/04/failure-api.html
But, the problem is, I can't EditFamily with a transaction.Start() done before....
What can I do please?
no, your logic with fruits in a basket is unacceptable. Position of elements is important if there are cross-references! It's important for me to know, for example, at which elements this Dimension is set, and I need to know if Dimension is moved from one element to other. In fact, "ElementID" was created just for this case, it's usual "database primary key".
Store the geometry information is bad idea too, because elements may move when a family is opened from a project, for example, value of "type" parameter may change when new FamilySymbols are created or changed in the project.
Is there a way to create a new report category and new report? It looks like all the native Revit reports are .htm files stored in the Temp directory, I can mirror that, but how do I link the report into the project browser?
I'm not sure if this is possible, I don't think there is a way to do this through the Revit UI, so I'm not optimistic. How is everyone displaying information from their apps so it feels like the Revit workflow?
Hello,
UIControlledApplication.ControlledApplication.VersionBuild is returning the value that would normally be returned by UIControlledApplication.ControlledApplication.VersionNumber
Is this the expected behavior, or maybe a bug with Revit 2021?
e.g.
VersionBuild should be '20200220_1100(x64)' but it is '21.0.0.383', however they do appear to be correctly displayed in the About Autodesk Revit 2021 dialog shown below
Thanks,
Todd
Thank you very much, this has been great help.
I have another issue you might be able to help with:
After I have retrieved the coordinates, I would like to delete the lines within that certain layer.
I have tried to doc.Delete() the Lines but they don't have and ElementId and you can't reassign them as an Element. Neither can you do that with the GeometryObject.
As a workaround to this I have tried to import the .dwg again without said layer, but it seems I can't retrieve the other layers' names because they don't seem to have a valid ElementId for the GraphicsStyle so they can't be queried properly.
Thanks again.
