Merging viewpoints

[evesi]

Hello,

If I have two seperate distinct nwf's which both contain/refer the same content (being a single nwd) but have different viewpoints stored, is there a way to merge the viewpoints within these nwf's while retaining both the hide/required attributes and appearance overrides?

Could this be done in theory? Ideally I'd like to implement this through .net api

Tnx.

[Khez]

It is totally possible.

This 1 2 3 parts tutorial is really helpfull for working with Viewpoints

In your case(this is Csharp, but the method is similar in VB):

You need to first make a copy of the active document's currentViewPoint:

(in the first document)

public void CopyViewPoint()
    {
        public Viewpoint oCurVP;
        oCurVP = Autodesk.Navisworks.Api.Application.ActiveDocument.CurrentViewpoint;

        public Viewpoint oCopyVP;
        oCopyVP = oCurVP.CreateCopy();
}

 Then switch to the other document, and tell the api that you want that copy as the new viewpoint.

public void ApplyViewpoint()
    {                
         Autodesk.Navisworks.Api.Application.ActiveDocument.CurrentViewpoint.CopyFrom(oCopyVP);
    }

 You might want to store the copy in in a property more than a variable if it doesn't work.

What it should do is apply the same camera position,rotation, zoom to the second document. It doesn't not affect what is hidden/selected, only camera properties.