topic Re: Set active work plane in Revit API Forum

Set active work plane

Adamchuk_Nicolay — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:31:03 GMT

Hi,

is it possibility to set active work plane for some view ?

There are ..ActiveView.ShowActiveWorkPlane() and

HideActiveWorkPlane() but how to set active plane ?

Thank you for advance.

Re: Set active work plane

saikat — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 22:07:23 GMT

The following code shows how to creata a new SketchPlane and assign it as the active workplane.

 
      UIApplication uiApp = commandData.Application;
      UIDocument uiDoc = uiApp.ActiveUIDocument;
 
      // Setting workplane
      using (Transaction transaction = newTransaction(uiDoc.Document, "tt"))
      {
        transaction.Start();
        Plane plane = newPlane(uiDoc.ActiveView.ViewDirection, uiDoc.ActiveView.Origin);
        SketchPlane sp = uiDoc.Document.Create.NewSketchPlane(plane);
        uiDoc.ActiveView.SketchPlane = sp;
        uiDoc.ActiveView.ShowActiveWorkPlane();
        transaction.Commit();
      }
 
I hope this helps.
cheers
 

Re: Set active work plane

Adamchuk_Nicolay — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:37:11 GMT

Dear Saikat!

Thank you for advance.

Try to use it.

Re: Set active work plane

Ning_Zhou — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 04:55:49 GMT

any idea how to set workplane from existing planes of the view?

Re: Set active work plane

Joe.Ye — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 02:42:24 GMT

Hi Ning,

Yes, you can. Saikat's code create a sketch plane from scratch. You can also call SketchPlane.Create(Reference refPlanar) to create a sketch plane using an existing planar plane.

public static SketchPlane Create(
	Document document,
	Reference planarFaceReference
)

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Re: Set active work plane

Ning_Zhou — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 03:41:24 GMT

thanks Joe, what i mean is how to set workplane fron existing list, see attached JPG.

Re: Set active work plane

Joe.Ye — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:37:52 GMT

Hi Ning,

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

You can get the SketchPlane from the existing document. SketchPlane instances are store in Revit document. Just follow the element filtering way to get your target sketch plane.

Re: Set active work plane

Ning_Zhou — Fri, 06 Sep 2013 10:46:14 GMT

right, thanks Joe & have great weekend!

Re: Set active work plane

Jason_Miller6 — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:46:48 GMT

I know this is an older post. Can the solution to this be applied with Dynamo in the Code Block or Python? I not too familiar with python, but I think this route would help me achieve what I am trying to in Dynamo and get the work plane set before placing elements. Not sure what my input and output need to be set at.

Re: Set active work plane

zhounnin — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 01:31:24 GMT

zero touch is the way to go if not doable in Python

Re: Set active work plane

paolomod3nese — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:15:33 GMT

The method for the creation of the Plane has changed, in case anyone needs this i'll leave a code snippet:

using(Transaction t = new Transaction(doc, "Creating sketchplane")) { t.Start(); Plane plane = Plane.CreateByNormalAndOrigin(doc.ActiveView.ViewDirection, doc.ActiveView.Origin); SketchPlane sp = SketchPlane.Create(doc, plane); doc.ActiveView.SketchPlane = sp; t.Commit(); }