Re: Find Views in which an element is visible (by geometry or actual visibility)
Does sound promising. I was planning on using the bounding box idea, but Iam somewhat new at the REVIT API, and have not dealt with the bounding boxof views yet. Somehow I suspect there is a level of...
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I thought I would share how I fixed this problem. My IT person repaired my VS. Seems to be a VS problem.
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Hi guys, Thank you for a valuable discussion, especially Erik with his in-depth real-world experience. The note on the huge speed-up using bounding boxes is of fundamental importance. You absolutely...
View ArticleRe: Wall element - memory usage
Dear Christian, Try doc regen, closing transactions within sub-transactions, etc.Benchmark, benchmark, benchmark.Once you have a solid case proving inacceptable performance, please submit a...
View ArticleRe: browsing model files in the cloud (A360 C4R)
Dear Sherbs, Sorry for the late response. I am checking with the development team about the current status of this. Things are moving a lot in this area, as you can imagine. Best regards, Jeremy
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Hi Jeremy + Dev Team,Any progress? Even if there is no open API (which there should be), an explanation of what gets pushed to a link file when Publish Coordinates is executed would be very helpful....
View ArticleRe: Dimension between walls corners using Revit's API
Three days later and I've made it work! I currently :Get the exterior face reference with HostObjectUtils,Get the actual face using GetGeometryObjectFromReference(),Extract the geometry from the wall...
View ArticleRe: Dimension between walls corners using Revit's API
To be a stickler, the original question isn't answered but my problem is solved so I guess we're done. To anyone wondering what those dots are, they seem to be the edges of the face, seen from...
View ArticleRe: Find Views in which an element is visible (by geometry or actual visibility)
Hi Jeremy,actually Im not using the quick filter. I tried to, but the boundingbox of the views need altering because the Z values are not correct (for viewplans atleast). Im prefiltering alot with...
View ArticleRe: Dimension between walls corners using Revit's API
Dear Thomas, Congratulations on the deep research and successful solution! Thank you very much for sharing the description. I am glad the task is solved, even if the question is not completely...
View ArticleRe: Find Views in which an element is visible (by geometry or actual visibility)
Thank you Erik. I will hopefully soon have a chance to dig into this infull. Right away, I can see a few major tricks that I am sure would havetaken me quite a while to uncover.In particular, needing...
View ArticleRe: Dimension between walls corners using Revit's API
I'd be flattered to have my solution documented! I'm not sure what my employer's thoughts are regarding sharing code and given that the code is legally speaking theirs I'll ask them first. I've...
View ArticleRe: Find Views in which an element is visible (by geometry or actual visibility)
Im glad you found some useful bits.I dont think that revit is using the boundingbox to calculate of the element is visible in the view, its far too slow for that (select element by id and press show,...
View ArticleRe: Wall element - memory usage
Thanks Jeremy, I will do. The behavior is really not very reproducible. regardsChristian
View ArticleRe: browsing model files in the cloud (A360 C4R)
Hi Jeremy, In parallel with posting here, my brother (and business partner) opened a case with Autodesk support. For reference, the case number is: 12141097 It appears that you responded to him as well...
View ArticleRe: browsing model files in the cloud (A360 C4R)
Dear Greg and Jason, Thank you very for pointing it out. I did already notice, actually, and combined both of your questions when asking the development team for more information. I definitely prefer...
View ArticleRe: browsing model files in the cloud (A360 C4R)
Hi Jeremy, What exactly is meant by "Path-unrelated document-based APIs naturally work with C4R models."? It sounds like the first part of item 1 in your response in suggests that we are currently...
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Is there a way to add a new parameter to every element of a category in a project at once?
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Dear nmbick, In revit when you add a parameter and bind this parameter then its require category set. in which you can use one or more category at once to create category set While you bind that...
View ArticleRe: Filtering elements by project parameters
You dont have to create a native wall or roof. You can just create a DirectShape of the correct category and then read the parameter from that.
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