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Access line weight for dimension lines

ritesh.solankeSKPPH — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 12:07:06 GMT

I want to access dimension line's line weight and even end points for the witness lines programmatically.i have attached a screenshot of what exactly I want.

Thanks.

Re: Access line weight for dimension lines

jeremytammik — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 13:01:22 GMT

Before you do anything else whatsoever, install RevitLookup:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/RevitLookup

It is an interactive Revit BIM database exploration tool to view and navigate element properties and relationships.

Use that to discover the relationships between the dimension lines, their styles and the properties you are looking for.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Re: Access line weight for dimension lines

BardiaJahan — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 14:46:12 GMT

As Jeremy said, RevitLookup is a useful tool to find the relationship between elements. etc.

For the line weight you can get BuiltInParameter.LINE_PEN from the dimension type:

ElementId dimTypeId = dimension.GetTypeId();
Element dimType = document.GetElement(dimTypeId);
Paramater lineWeight = dimType.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.LINE_PEN);