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Determine Project/Document Type

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Sep 2013 03:24:25 GMT

Hello

I have searched the blog The Building Coder to see if my question is already answered there but no luck.

I am trying to determine the type of Revit project that is currently open. When I say the type, I mean, either MEP, Architectural, Structural or Construction.

Do you know how I can determine this? I have found an class called ProjectInfo but there isn't anything in there pertaining to the project type. There is a property called Category but as usual the help documentation provides a superficial 1 sentence explaination of the property that doesn't clear things up nor provide examples of it potential values. I have also run a project and output the Category property using .ToString() but it just outputs the namespace path "Revit.DB.ProjectInfo.Category"

If anyone could provide advice on how to determine the current Revit projects type I would be very greatful 🙂

Re: Determine Project/Document Type

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:16:15 GMT

The way I do it (not saying that is the preferred way), is to check for the presence of a specific item within the databse that can only be included when using a specific template.

What I mean is: I am always checking if it is from an 'Electrical Template'. I know that a few distribution systems are already set in elec. templates that do not exist in others, so I check for that first (see attachments).

I assume you could know what exists soley in a structural template also, then whatever is left by deduction, has to be Architectural.

Then set your rules based on the results from that.

Re: Determine Project/Document Type

Anonymous — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 22:41:10 GMT

Thanks for your reply 🙂 Will try this technique out.