Viewport Properties

[grahamcook]

Hi

Anyone know if its possible to access the "type" properties of a viewport via the API.  After creating a new viewport object i'd like to be able to change the type as highlighted in the image below.  This snapshot was taken after selecting a viewport.  I'm using 2013.

Thanks.

[grahamcook · Accepted solution]

I figured this one out in the end.  Viewport is system family that has types, the types represented the items in the menu in the original post above.  So i grabbed the first viewport object on the model, looped through the types until the type name matched the name i was looking for.  This gave me the id of the type i needed so i could then set the type of the viewport using the viewport.ChangeTypeId method.  Code below assumes vp is the new View Port.

Viewport firstViewPort = new FilteredElementCollector(doc)
    .OfClass(typeof(Viewport)).Cast<Viewport>().FirstOrDefault<Viewport>();

ICollection<ElementId> vpt = firstViewPort.GetValidTypes();

foreach (ElementId e in vpt)
{
    ElementType type = doc.GetElement(e) as ElementType;

    // Edit line to suit or pass in variable
    if (type.Name == "Title w Line")
    {
        vp.ChangeTypeId(type.Id);
    }
}