Convert RevitLinkInstance to Element

mehdi.blanchard — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:13:56 GMT

I extracted linked walls from a View using a CustomExporter 2D. From the exporter the walls are just seen as Elements:

public RenderNodeAction OnElementBegin2D(ElementNode node) { Element e = node.Document.GetElement(node.ElementId); ... return RenderNodeAction.Proceed; }

To be able to dimension them I need these Elements to be converted to RevitLinkInstances so that I can get the correct reference.

To convert from a RevitLinkInstance to an Element I did:

RevitLinkInstance link = e as RevitLinkInstance; Document linkedDoc = link.GetLinkDocument(); e = linkedDoc.GetElement(r.LinkedElementId);

But how do you convert from an Element to a RevitLinkInstance?

Thanks!

Re: Convert RevitLinkInstance to Element

AGGilliam — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 13:42:07 GMT

I just searched RevitLinkInstance on the SDK (which you can find here), and found this:

RevitLinkInstance.Create(document, elementId);

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Convert RevitLinkInstance to Element

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