Revit API - Access to Text & Label Types within Family and Projects

[mfleming.stantec]

I'm trying to add new text types and label types to a project or family.

I'm able to create new family types but I cannot access the text/label system paramters.

Revit 2013

Sorry for the noob question.

[saikat]

Hi

Does this post help: http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2012/08/creating-new-textnotetype-programmatically.html

thanks

Saikat

[mfleming.stantec]

Yes this will work.

I can look for the same procedure for labels and I'll be set.

Thanks!

[saikat]

Glad the suggestion is helpful.

kinid regards

[mfleming.stantec · Accepted solution]

For Text Types this worked.

Revit API - Create Text Type

For Label types I had to change "TextNote" to "TextElement" and "TextNoteType" to "Symbol".

Project completed.

[5674829]

I want Create a new TextElement(Label) in a Family document via API,but i found i cannot! Because i did not find a method that is similar with Document.FamilyCreate.NewTextNote,Pipe.Create. How to Create TextElement(Label)? I am looking forward to hearing from you.

[arnostlobel]

Dear 5674829:

I have not used this method myself, but I believe you could use the NewTextNote method in both kinds of documents, because it is a method of ItemFactoryBase, which is a subclass of both Creation.Document and Creation.FamilyItemFavctory. As far as I know, it has never been possible to directly instantiate a TextElement, because that class does not have a public constructor. Only TextNote object is possible to instantiate.

Cheers

[jnoordzij]

Thanks for this thread. It helped me to fix my own problem, for which i needed to understand how I could update the text font of text notes as well as labels. 

Just for your information, a TextNote is a TextElement as well. The revit API docs says:

TextElement Class 

Base class representing text elements in Revit.

...so when you filter for TextElements you will get Labels as well as TextNotes . 

That said, the method that you so helpfully provided above, works for textnotes as well as labels:

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@mfleming.stantec wrote:

For Label types (...) change "TextNote" to "TextElement" and "TextNoteType" to "Symbol".

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So you actually don't need 2 methods but you can use 1 and the same method for both types. 

Cheers