topic Re: RevitLinkType Name not equal to Application.Documents.Title in BIM360? in Revit API Forum

RevitLinkType Name not equal to Application.Documents.Title in BIM360?

jkbi — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 04:49:01 GMT

Hi;

I've used just for years the code from https://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2012/10/accessing-data-from-linked-file-using-revit-api.html.

IList<Element> elems = collector .OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_RvtLinks) .OfClass(typeof(RevitLinkType)) .ToElements(); foreach (Element e in elems) { RevitLinkType linkType = e as RevitLinkType; String s = String.Empty; foreach (Document linkedDoc in uiApp.Application.Documents) { if (linkedDoc.Title.Equals(linkType.Name)) {

But it seems that the linkedDoc.Title can be different from linkType.Name for files on BIM360? Does this happen if user changes the name of the Revit file on BIM360? or how...

And does it mean on have to use GUIDs/IDs instead?

Re: RevitLinkType Name not equal to Application.Documents.Title in BIM360?

Chuong.Ho — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:00:33 GMT

try fix with linkType.Name.Replace(".rvt", string.Empty);

Re: RevitLinkType Name not equal to Application.Documents.Title in BIM360?

jkbi — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 06:06:31 GMT

🙂 if was just so simple - i'm doing something like that already - the problem is that file start like XXXXXX.rvt but after rename it is YYYYYY.rvt in BIM360 UI, but remains XXXXXX.rvt in skyscraper (it seems)

Re: RevitLinkType Name not equal to Application.Documents.Title in BIM360?

jkbi — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 11:13:01 GMT

I looked into RevitLookup and found this function for linkinstances - GetLinkDocument

So I changed the code to this instead of looping documents - and it works.

RvtDocument linkedDoc = linkInstance.GetLinkDocument();

if (linkedDoc == null) continue;