topic Re: How to set smooth line with anti - aliasing for Current View ? in Revit API Forum

How to set smooth line with anti - aliasing for Current View ?

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Jun 2019 07:40:11 GMT

Hi everyone,

I am trying to set the smooth line with anti - aliasing for the active view by following code:

                                viewForPreview.AreAnnotationCategoriesHidden = true;
                                viewForPreview.AreImportCategoriesHidden = true;
                                viewForPreview.DetailLevel = ViewDetailLevel.Fine;
                                viewForPreview.DisplayStyle = DisplayStyle.Realistic;

                                ViewDisplayModel displayModel = viewForPreview.GetViewDisplayModel();
                                displayModel.EnableSilhouettes = false;  
                                displayModel.SmoothEdges = true;
                                displayModel.ShowHiddenLines = ShowHiddenLinesValues.ByDiscipline;
                                viewForPreview.SetViewDisplayModel(displayModel);

But when I run the code, there was an error : " the silhouette line style id is not a valid line style to apply to the view" :

If you have any experience with this problem, please help me.

Thank you so much for your help.

Best Regards,

Ninh Truong

Re: How to set smooth line with anti - aliasing for Current View ?

Moustafa_K — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:06:57 GMT

hi,

you need to first set the linestyle of the Silhouette Edges, so that enabling the Silhouette have a proper line style to display

var lstyles = new FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(typeof(GraphicsStyle));
var lstyl = lstyles.Where(o => o.Name.Contains(mylinestylename)).FirstOrDefault();
displayModel.SilhouetteEdgesGStyleId = lstyl;

Re: How to set smooth line with anti - aliasing for Current View ?

michael-coffey — Fri, 29 Jan 2021 15:09:46 GMT

I'm having this same issue. @Moustafa_K You said that "you have to set a line style to enable them" but you can cleary see in the sample code that Silhouettes are being set to false:

displayModel.EnableSilhouettes = false;

Why would the line style need to be set?

In Revit Lookup, the line style returns a value of "< null >". Setting null returns a different error that states that it can't be set to null. Using ElementId.InvalidElement doesn't work either. Has anyone figured out a workaround?