How to connect two cable trays in bottom Vertical Justification by Revit API?
8m ago How to connect two cable trays in bottom Vertical Justification by Revit API? Hi, When I use Revit ribbon drawing function, it is easy to connect two cable trays with bottom Vertical...
View ArticleRe: PromptForFamilyInstancePlacement/DocumentChanged returning unexpected elemen
Bumping this up to the top again. Our client is still experiencing this issue and we are still at a loss to explain it. Manually placing instances of the same family via Revit (not our add-in) works as...
View ArticleRe: multistorey stair subements
Dear Paul, I continued discussing this with the development team, and they reply: This should be possible, right? Yes. You could pass the level of instance to `LinkElementId placementLevelId` to create...
View ArticleHow to connect a horizontal cable tray with a vertical cable tray by Revit API?
Hi, In following picture, there is a horizontal cable tray, and I want to draw a vertical cable tray starting from the middle point of the horizontal cable tray. when I use Revit ribbon drawing...
View ArticleRe: Raising ExternalEvent stops before Execute method
I have now commented out the entire Execute-method without any success. It doesnt read the name of the External Event or Invoke the Execute method…
View ArticleRe: TagText From Room Tags
Hi Understood, that is obvious. Hence my question on how I can cast them as Independent Tags to use the TagText class? When using Python, I can feed a list of Room Tags and use .TagText to retrieve...
View ArticleRe: TagText From Room Tags
Hi, also the RoomTag class has a TagText property.As already pointed out, IndependentTag and RoomTag are completely different classes.They are not derived from one another but from Element, their...
View ArticleRe: TagText From Room Tags
Thank you for your response. I think the confusion comes from the fact that I am trying to make this work for Revit 2015. Looking through the API I was only located to Independent Tags as having the...
View ArticleHow to create a tee fitting of not 90 degree branch angle for pipe by Revit API?
Hi,When I use Revit ribbon drawing function, it is easy to create a tee fitting of any branch angle for pipe. But when using NewTeeFitting method to do it, if the angle of branch is not 90 degree, then...
View ArticleRe: How to connect a horizontal cable tray with a vertical cable tray by Revit A
Hi! I tried to create a vertical cable tray and connect it to the existing horizontal tray manually, but it didn't work for me, e.g. Revit didn't create tee fitting in my case, so may I and you miss...
View ArticleRe: TagText From Room Tags
Hi, now I see the problem.A quick check using RevitLookup shows that there is no access to the RoomTag's text value.Neither as a property nor as a parameter, visible or hidden.And also no access via...
View ArticleRe: How to connect a horizontal cable tray with a vertical cable tray by API
Hi Aignatovich, Thank you for your reply. You are correct: Revit didn't create a tee fitting, but the horizontal cable tray and the vertical cable tray do connect well even there is no tee fitting. I...
View ArticleDimensioning problems with stud walls
We like to dimension to face of stud. When we change our wall type to show the gyp. wrapping the stud, it no longer allows us to select the end point of the stud (red point in attached image). Any...
View Articleget FamilySymbol from Family
I used the following code to retrieve an element and I can see the FamilyName parameter and its value in the debugger in Visual Studio. How can cast or what can I do to get the value of the FamilyName?...
View ArticleAddin Manifest - Unknown Publisher
Is there anyway to modify the addin file to include the Publisher name or is a digital signature required to do that? See Attached image. Thank you.
View ArticleRe: Addin Manifest - Unknown Publisher
Hi , You need a code signing certificate for your addin if you don't want that to see that warning again. This was already discussed in the link below and might help...
View ArticleRevit export ddXML?
Anyone: Since Revit's duct pressure loss calculation tools are uneven at best, is there any chance that a well-connected duct system can be exported to ddXML, so that duct pressure loss calcs can be...
View ArticleProblem with AssignedPressureDrop property
Hi, I have problem with set AssignedPressureDrop property. This property return double value. public double AssignedPressureDrop { get; set; } My code work only when I set integer value like 10:...
View ArticleRe: multistorey stair subements
Dear Paul, Here is a sample code snippet: ICollection<ElementId> runIds = stairs.GetStairsRuns(); foreach (ElementId runId in runIds) { StairsNumberSystemReferenceOption option =...
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