Extract Rivet Data to windows Form

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I want to extract rivet data such as room ID, room name, level on which rooms belong etc. using a button on windows from.

I have gone through Rivet API addin procedure added a manifest file &  successfully able to open a window in Rivet software.

If anyone can just help me with syntax to be used to extract say just one type of data like room ID and display into a listview on the window using click of a button rest of other data I will do it myself.

I have attached below the code to open my window in Rivet.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

using Autodesk.Revit;
using Autodesk.Revit.DB;
using Autodesk.Revit.UI;

namespace Trial
{
   
    [Autodesk.Revit.Attributes.Transaction(Autodesk.Revit.Attributes.TransactionMode.Manual)]
    public class Class1 : IExternalCommand
    {
        public Autodesk.Revit.UI.Result Execute(ExternalCommandData revit,
           ref string message, ElementSet elements)
        {

            try
            {
                Form1 f1 = new Form1();
                f1.Show();

               
            }

            catch(Exception ex)
            {

                MessageBox.Show(ex.Message);
               
            }
                       
            return Autodesk.Revit.UI.Result.Succeeded;

        }
    }

}
  

Below is the screen shot for the window opened in Rivet.

I have gone through many posts & tutorials  but I could not find the solution for the above problem.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Regards

-Faisal

[FlorisvdG · Accepted solution]

You can use the FilteredElementCollector to collect loads of data from an open file.
http://www.revitapidocs.com/2015/263cf06b-98be-6f91-c4da-fb47d01688f3.htm

for example:

List<View> lstAllViews = new FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(typeof(View)).Cast<View>().ToList();

Where doc is the current opendocument, and View is what I want the collector to collect.

The collector returns Elements, so I always cast the elements back to what I'm searching for.

There's almost certainly an example in the Revit SDK, you can check that out too.