Change TypeName of an element

[PavelBalobanov]

Hello!

could you give us a piece of advice, please,  how we can change typenames of Revit Elements of a model via API... without opening Revit. 

We have external application which keeps a set of typenames with a button “Change”. By tapping this button we would like to change the typenames of a model accordingly.

[MattKincaid]

Running Revit is basically a requirement for using the API.  Difficult to get around, I'm afraid. 

But if you can have Revit running, what you need should be straight-forward. Just write an Addin that uses the API's FamilyType class and changes the name property.

[PavelBalobanov]

Hi!

thanks for the answer!

Could you have a look at this, please. Have you tried it?

https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-automation/v3/developers_guide/overview/

It it is a new Forge API beta version which allows to modify Revit files without opening them...Just found. This is documentation https://forge.autodesk.com/en/docs/design-automation/v3/tutorials/revit/

could you comment on this, please.

[MattKincaid · Accepted solution]

Ah, I hadn't thought of that!  I haven't had a chance to dive into the Forge API myself yet.  But it might be possible using that.