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get 3d view with thelp of coding revit api

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 09:40:20 GMT

i had imported an adsk model with the help of revit api but when the model is imported, its view is in 2dimensional view level1, i want that my code also set the view to 3d of the opened model, can someone please help? i had tried googling but the every next code i had tried produced some sorts of errors.

Re: get 3d view with thelp of coding revit api

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 11:38:36 GMT

even in the view section,i m having only floor ceiling and elevation view...to view it as 3d box, i manually have to go to view tab and then click on default on 3d but i want to do it through my code so please if someone can help.

Re: get 3d view with thelp of coding revit api

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:28:00 GMT

You can enumerate all views, if you find a 3D View you can just select it into ActiveView. If you don't find one, you may have to create a new 3D View.

E.g. something like:

View3D view3d;

using (var collector = FilteredElementCollector(document))
{
    view3d = collector
                    .OfClass(typeof(View3D))
                    .Cast<View3D>()
                    .FirstOrDefault();
    // Note: may want an intelligent predicate in the call to FirstOrDefault() depending on your needs
}

if (view3d == null)
{
    // Need to create the view
    // I don't think you will need this, since there is almost always a default 3d view, but if you do look for View3D.CreateIsometric API call
}

// Activate the 3d view
uiDocument.ActiveView = view3d;

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