topic Re: Create Scope Boxes in Revit API Forum

Create Scope Boxes

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:42:17 GMT

Hello,

I saw on this forum that at least in 2012, scope boxes could not be created or resized via the API. Is this still the case?

My goal is to select multiple walls, create an elevation view parallel to the walls, then associate a scope box with the view that is parallel to the wall, and the size of the wall.

I beleive these two links are similar, but not the same as what I am going for:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/08/set-view-section-box-to-match-scope-box.html http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2012/06/create-section-view-parallel-to-wall.html

Any help is greatly appreciated!

- Jed

Re: Create Scope Boxes

Troy_Gates — Fri, 28 Apr 2017 20:17:26 GMT

They still aren't available in 2018 API.

I'd suggest adding it to the Revit Ideas forum as a wish list item and then post a link to it here for others to upvote it.

Re: Create Scope Boxes

Daniel.Gijsbers — Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:57:36 GMT

YES PLEASE, we need to be able to create scope box through the API so we can create them automatically from dynamo!!!

Re: Create Scope Boxes

smbrennan — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 15:58:40 GMT

Stupid question from a non-programmer:

If the API doesn't support creation or manipulation of scope boxes, then how was this app developed?

https://apps.autodesk.com/RVT/en/Detail/Index?id=6897465823377340538&appLang=en&os=Win64

Re: Create Scope Boxes

Troy_Gates — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 16:29:08 GMT

That addin uses existing scopeboxes and copies them to create new ones.