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Get Label / Text boundingbox (width/height) from SharedParam on Viewsheet

Graham.Haigh — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 10:25:35 GMT

I am hoping some can point me in the right direction, i have a Titleblock with a number of Labels on these labels are ultimately populated by sharedparamaters. I am wondering is it possible given a particular viewsheet to get the boundingbox (i assume it is the boundingbox) of the Label? e.g. when editing the Titleblock i am after the area defined by the blue rectangle

Realistically i am after the width and height of that area define by the blue box, i thought i could get the boundingbox from the Parameters ElementID but that doest appear to work.

m.thanks

Re: Get Label / Text boundingbox (width/height) from SharedParam on Viewsheet

jeremytammik — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 11:12:11 GMT

Re: Get Label / Text boundingbox (width/height) from SharedParam on Viewsheet

Graham.Haigh — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:12:23 GMT

Thank you for the links ive been down a rabbit hole trying to figure out where the element is that i want but i cant quite see how i get to it. If i edit my Title block i can snoop on the Selected object e.g. in the example below its Client and i can see all the properties that im after

If i then call GetElement on the document object with the same elementID i get nothing returned i am assuming that is because i need to ask the Titleblock/Family for this element rather than the document object

Re: Get Label / Text boundingbox (width/height) from SharedParam on Viewsheet

Graham.Haigh — Thu, 23 Apr 2020 12:15:10 GMT

Well i completely overlooked i was in the Family editor when i was snooping so i would need to do something along these lines to access the Textelement

Dim fInst As FamilyInstance = doc.GetElement(New ElementId(632736)) Dim fm As Family = fInst.Symbol.Family Dim fmDoc As Document = doc.EditFamily(fm) Dim f1 = fmDoc.GetElement(New ElementId(635802))