topic Re: Saving viewsheetsetting problem. InSession issue. in Revit API Forum

Saving viewsheetsetting problem. InSession issue.

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:18:21 GMT

Hi,

I have a problem that i have spent days trying to get working... thinking it is working and then continuously finding bugs with it.

I have created a viewsheet that I want to print...

Setup my printmanager...

and selected the print range - print to view/sheets

... but I can't get it to save the viewsheetsetting correctly in all cases of weither the user has

In-Session or a saved print set enabled.

The code bellow gets me most of the way but, for some reason i need to manually press "OK" in the image bellow and then run the code to get it to work.

otherwise the viewsheetsettings are not saved when In-Session is enabled and it returns an error, "No views/sheets selected for printing";

I have looked at the viewprinter sample and cant find anything to solve this problem.

This has been a nightmare trying to solve so if there is anyone with a working sample of code or any suggestions i would greatly appreciate it.



FilteredElementCollector printSetFilter = new FilteredElementCollector(doc);
                printSetFilter.OfClass(typeof(View));

                ViewSet vwSet = new ViewSet();// to be assigned to IViewSheetSet

                foreach (Element item in printSetFilter)
                {
                    if (item is ViewSheet)
                    {
                        ViewSheet vw = (ViewSheet)item;
                        if (vw.SheetNumber == newSheetNumber)//         newSheetNumber is of the sheet i have created.
                        {
                            vwSet.Insert(vw);                //         place our new viewsheet in set
                        }
                    }
                }
                ViewSheetSetting newviewSheetSetting = printManager2.ViewSheetSetting;
                IViewSheetSet vsheetset = newviewSheetSetting.CurrentViewSheetSet;
               
                
                if (vsheetset.Equals(newviewSheetSetting.InSession))//     checking to see if InSession is enabled
                {                                                   //     there is no boolean return for insession?
                    
                    vsheetset = newviewSheetSetting.InSession;
                    newviewSheetSetting.InSession.Views = vwSet;
                    try
                    {
                        newviewSheetSetting.Save();
                    }
                    catch { }
                    vsheetset.Views = vwSet;
                }
                else
                {
                    newviewSheetSetting.CurrentViewSheetSet.Views = vwSet;
                    try
                    {
                        newviewSheetSetting.Save();
                    }
                    catch { }
                    vsheetset.Views = vwSet;
                }

Thank you

Re: Saving viewsheetsetting problem. InSession issue.

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 15:41:17 GMT

Update* Apparently this does not determine weither the IViewSheetSet = InSession

if (vsheetset.Equals(newviewSheetSetting.InSession))
{

.....

}

Re: Saving viewsheetsetting problem. InSession issue.

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jul 2015 12:22:14 GMT

                bool needToCreateNewSet = true;
                FilteredElementCollector filteredElementCollectorSets = new FilteredElementCollector(doc);
                filteredElementCollectorSets.OfClass(typeof(ViewSheetSet));
                foreach (Element e in filteredElementCollectorSets)
                {
                    if (e is ViewSheetSet)
                    {
                        ViewSheetSet vSet = (ViewSheetSet)e;
                        if (vSet.Name == "PASS1192 - Printing Set")
                        {
                            vSet.Views = vwSet;
                            newviewSheetSetting.CurrentViewSheetSet = vSet;
                         
                            vsheetset.Views = vSet.Views;
                            
                            try
                            {
                                newviewSheetSetting.Save();
                            }
                            catch { }
                            printManager2.Apply();
                            needToCreateNewSet = false;
                        }
                    }
                }
                if (needToCreateNewSet == true)
                {
                    newviewSheetSetting.CurrentViewSheetSet.Views = vwSet;
                    
                    vsheetset.Views = vwSet;
                    try
                    {
                        newviewSheetSetting.SaveAs("PASS1192 - Printing Set");
                    }
                    catch { }
                    printManager2.Apply();
                    needToCreateNewSet = false;                    
                }

Solved. I could not successfully save Inession viewsheetsettings without using saveas() so i was forced to create a set to use.
I tried deleting the set after use but had a database error.