topic Re: How to select linked element by element Id in Revit API Forum

How to select linked element by element Id

thannaingoo.api — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 06:38:30 GMT

Dear All,

How to select(highlight) the linked element by elementId?

We can select the current project element by elemnetId.

Thanks

Eden Oo

Re: How to select linked element by element Id

cwaluga — Wed, 05 Sep 2018 06:57:12 GMT

Selecting is not possible via the Revit API, unfortunately. But it is good that people keep asking this, since it is one of the most annoying missing feature .

Re: How to select linked element by element Id

boris_zivkovic — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 08:14:15 GMT

Still no solution to this one, we can extract the ID of linked element through dynamo, but not select it.

Hope this feature gets added in next version.

Re: How to select linked element by element Id

yimin.chenTW — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 09:14:16 GMT

Hi @boris_zivkovic ,

Not sure if this is something similar to what you are looking for:

List<Reference> selectedObjs = new List<Reference>(); selectedObjs = sel.PickObjects(ObjectType.LinkedElement, "Select Linked Elements").ToList(); List<Element> selectedElements = new List<Element>(); foreach (Reference r in selectedObjs) { RevitLinkInstance linkInstance = doc.GetElement(r) as RevitLinkInstance; Document linkedDoc = linkInstance.GetLinkDocument(); selectedElements.Add(linkedDoc.GetElement(r.LinkedElementId)); } foreach(Element e in selectedElements) { do something... }

Re: How to select linked element by element Id

cwaluga — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 10:57:09 GMT

This solves a different problem. We want to set the selection set programmatically in linked docs. This is still not possible and probably in the top 10 of every serious developers‘ list of annoying API limitations.

Re: How to select linked element by element Id

sakwet — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 05:39:28 GMT

Is it possible to do this now? any updates?

Re: How to select linked element by element Id

fawzimasri7137 — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 07:36:33 GMT

As far as I can tell this is still not possible.

my work around was to:

1- make a list of all the elements I wanted to interact with from the linked document.

2- copy these elements to my host document- using CopyElements

3- do whatever I needed to do with them

4- delete them from my host document.

I know this may seem time consuming, but my list was rather small.
if you have a better method please let me know