Activate Viewpoints with Hide/Show, Materials overrides and review annotations

[ngombault]

Hi,

Using the API .Net or COM, how can I activate a Saved View Point the same way it is activated when the user click it in the tree?

I managed to align the view to the viewpoint coordinate with the method CopyFrom, but this doesn't activate any of the annotations of the view, the material overrides nor the Hide/show status. Where does Navisworks store this data? and how can I retrieve/activate it as well?

Thanks,

[ngombault · Accepted solution]

Funny I spent a week wondering if that would be possible and the entire afternoon trying. And just after I posted the question i found the solution.

You need to use the SavedViewPoint, Instead of just the Viewpoint.

Autodesk.Navisworks.Api.Application.ActiveDocument.SavedViewpoints.CurrentSavedViewpoint = CType(RefSavedViewpoint)

Cheers

[brian.k.smith]

You need to pass the type as the second argument to the CTYPE function.   "... = CType(RefSavedViewpoint, SavedViewpoint)"

[jonathonbroughton]

CType is VisualBasic and not C#