ElementIntersectsElementFilter with linked docs

[Anonymous]

Hi,

How do I make ElementIntersectsElementFilter work with linked docs.

Thanks & Regards

Sanjay Pandey

[jeremytammik · Accepted solution]

Dear Sanjay Pandey,

I am not sure whether ElementIntersectsElementFilter works directly with linked docs. I'll check for you.

Here is one possible approach to determine the location of the linked elements in the host document:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2013/11/determining-host-document-location-of-a-linked-elem...

You could use that as part of your solution.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Anonymous]

Hi,

Thanks for the help.

I got it working.

Thanks & Regards

Sanjay Pandey

[jeremytammik]

Dear Sanjay Pandey,

Congratulations!

That was very quick indeed!

How, please?

I am sure this is of great interest to others as well.

Thank you for sharing!

Cheers,

Jeremy

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

ElementIntersectsElementFilter does not work with lilnked docs

but we can always loop the linked docs and use ElementIntersectsElementFilter with each linked doc.

Thanks & Regards

Sanjay Pandey

[Anonymous]

Hi Sanjay,

How exactly did you make it to work? I'm in a similar situation and for me it is not working.

I have an element from a linked doc and another one from current doc and ElementIntersectsElementFilter fail to see the intersaction.

This is what I'm doing:

FilteredElementCollector collector = new FilteredElementCollector(element.Document, new List<ElementId> { element.Id });
collector.WherePasses(new ElementIntersectsElementFilter(elementFromLink));

and collector.GetElementCount() return 0

Thank you,

Claudiu

[Anonymous]

Here it goes:

foreach (Document linkedDoc in doc.Application.Documents)
                {
                    FilteredElementCollector collectorn = new FilteredElementCollector(linkedDoc);
                    collectorn.WherePasses(new ElementMulticategoryFilter(builtInCats));
                    ElementIntersectsElementFilter testElementIntersectsElementFilter = new ElementIntersectsElementFilter(intersect);
                    collectorn.WherePasses(testElementIntersectsElementFilter);
                    foreach (Element elm in collectorn)
                    {
                        //string gt = elm.Id.ToString();
                        //TaskDialog.Show("IIPL", gt + "source " + intersect.Id.ToString());
                        got = true;
                        break;
                    }
                    if (got == true)
                    {
                        break;
                    }
                }

Thanks & Regards

Sanjay Pandey

[Anonymous]

This filter only work when your linkrevitinstance do not have transform to the current project.

You can check by the method RevitLinkInstance.GetTransform().

I feel annoying about this limitation now.