Load family using APIs

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I need to know how could I load a family using APIs and this specific family should be active when ever I move the cursor. I have already managed to load a family and it is already loaded, but it is not active while moving the cursor. here is the code:

public class LoadFamily: IExternalCommand
{
public IExternalCommand.Result Execute(
ExternalCommandData commandData,
ref string message,
ElementSet elements )
{
Document doc = commandData.Application.ActiveDocument;

doc.LoadFamily( "Path to the rfa file");

[Anonymous]

When you say "but it is not active..." what do you really mean? Do you want to create an instance of one of the family types under it using API?

[sgermano]

You need to use the PromptForFamilyInstancePlacement method. Research that as you will have user GUI placed families 🙂