Default Section type

[Anonymous]

Hi all,

I'm having trouble setting the default section type. To troubleshoot I tried the following code: 

Sub SectionTest(document As Document)
       
Dim id As ElementId = document.GetDefaultElementTypeId(ElementTypeGroup.ViewTypeSection)       
document.SetDefaultElementTypeId(ElementTypeGroup.ViewTypeSection, id)

End Sub

But get the following error:

"The element type id typeId is invalid for the give DefaultElementType id defaultTypeId."

Any ideas?

[Aaron.Lu · Accepted solution]

Hi bburling,

Looks like it is a problem.

I've logged an issue:

REVIT-82177 - SetDefaultElementTypeId(ElementTypeGroup.ViewTypeSection, id) throws

Thanks for let us know.

[Anonymous]

ok thanks

[wouter_vandebergh]

I still have this issue with Revit 2019.2. This topic was marked as solved, but it seems the issue is not resolved. Any workaround available?

ElementId defaultGroupTypeId = doc.GetDefaultElementTypeId(ElementTypeGroup.ViewTypeSection);
doc.SetDefaultElementTypeId(ElementTypeGroup.ViewTypeSection, defaultGroupTypeId);

Throws:

An exception of type 'Autodesk.Revit.Exceptions.ArgumentException' occurred in RevitAPI.dll but was not handled in user code
Additional information: The element type id typeId is invalid for the give DefaultElementType id defaultTypeId.
Parameter name: typeId