Return the Revit family type name involved in a Clash

[Anonymous]

Hi all, I am needing to write out the Revit family names of clash items as found by the Navis works Clash Detective. Ideally I need a solution to group all clashes by the clash item 1 (LHS) and return a string value of the family name of this item. I have so far managed to get all the properties of the clash itself except these names and the grouping action (i.e. the hard stuff!). I am coding in C# for Navisworks 2014. Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance 

[Anonymous]

Hi again. I thought I'd let you know I have a 'good enough' solution to this one by using either the ClashResult.CompositeItem1.DisplayName or ClashResult.CompositeItem1.ClassDisplayName to pull out the Revit category name or family member name. A simple switch to check whether the item is a system item or not should determine which of these to use. I am then able to use code similar to the api-examples ClashDetective to group these.

Any further comments would still be appreciated so looking forward tp them all.

Cheers.

[Anonymous]

No honestly, any comments at all would be appreciated.....

[atogawa]

I am also looking for a similar solution where I can automatically group all clashes involving the item. Have you made any progress in this? 

[Anonymous]

atogawa, I have a fully working solution to this. It has been developed based on the ClashResult.CompositeItem1.DisplayName or ClashResult.CompositeItem1.ClassDisplayName as discussed in my subsequent posting.

Best of luck with this,

Chris.