Accessing Revit lineweights
Dear Helena,
Thank you for your query.
You need to use a filtered element collector to programmatically retrieve Revit database elements.
If you are unclear about what that is, please refer to the Revit API getting started material:
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#2
To determine how to identify the elements you are after, please install RevitLookup and use that to explore your Revit database:
https://github.com/jeremytammik/RevitLookup
That will provide you with a user interface that uses the Revit API to show you how they can be programmatically retrieved and explored.
For some more detailed background information specifically on line styles, please refer to The Building Coder discussion on creating a new line style:
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2016/10/how-to-create-a-new-line-style.html#6
The code demonstrating that is part of The Building Coder samples:
https://github.com/jeremytammik/the_building_coder_samples
I hope this helps.
Best regards,
Jeremy
Dear Jeremy,
Perhaps I did not explain my task properly: I have all I need about linestyles and line patterns, that was never a problem.
I need to get a setting for lineweights:
looked everywhere using Revit lookup and also came across the posting in your blog about making linetypes.
what I need is actually these settings: for Model line weights at different scales and Annotative line weights
I tried to retrieve them similarly to the line pattern definitions(that works fine), but the only setting I can find is for exporting lineweights, not for reading internal Revit setting.
Many thanks for your help.
