Get Space Phase

[mcclanathan]

Hello,

I am writing a macro that will get all selected elements, delete any existing zones in the selection, remove anything else thats not a space, then create a new zone with the spaces that are left over. To create the new zone I need a phase.  I have most of the macro working, but I can't figure out how to get the phase of spaces.  I trying to do something like:

Phase phase = e.Phase;

 Can someone show me how get the phase of an element, and/or space?

Thank you

[jeremytammik]

Dear Mcclanathan,

I am afraid I do not know the answer to your question off-hand.

Here are some avenues for further exploration, at least:

Background info on phases:

http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-DD43AD1E-37D1-4F61-8A23-52C9DEFF2D3F

This also shows how to enumerate the existing phases in the project.

For a given element, you can find out its state relative to a given phase using the GetPhaseStatus Method and paassing in a specific phase id.

Here are some of the phase related properties and methods on the common Revit database element base class:

• Element.CreatedPhaseId Property
• Element.DemolishedPhaseId Property
• Element.GetPhaseStatus Method
• Element.IsPhaseCreatedValid Method
• Element.IsPhaseDemolishedValid Method 

This post on The Building Coder explores some aspects, but not exactly what you are after:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/family-instance-room-phase.html

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[jmcclanathan]

How about getting the phase of a view?  Is that more straight forward than getting the phase of an element?

[jeremytammik · Accepted solution]

Dear Mcclanathan,

I am not saying that it is not straightforward to retrieve the phase of an element, if such a thing exists at all.

Anyway, to answer your new question:

Yes, that is definitely doable.

I just recently discussed in on The Buildiong Coder.

Even more so, I discussed setting the phase of a view:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2014/08/setting-the-phase-of-a-view.html

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[mcclanathan]

I figured out a way to get the phase.  Thanks for all the help.  Here is the code I used:

View activeView = this.ActiveUIDocument.Document.ActiveView;
Parameter param = activeView.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEW_PHASE);
ElementId eID = param.AsElementId();
Phase phase = doc.GetElement(eID) as Phase;

[jeremytammik]

Dear Mcclanathan,

Thank you for the confirmation, appreciation, kudos, and sharing the sample code snippet.

I am glad that this is resolved!

Cheers,

Jeremy