Highlight element(s) in ActiveView

[stane]

Hey guys!

I wonder if it is possible to ask revit api to only highlight (without selecting!!!) a specific element in active view. Exactly like it does when you hover over an element with mouse in the view.

Basically I have a modeless(using external events) grid of elements, and would like to highlight the appropriate element in the view when user clicks on it in the grid.

I tried to achieve that using ActiveView.SetElementOverrides(), but it seems a bit of a clunky and heavy(RefreshActiveView()) solution + I dont know how to make the outline visible through other elements overlapping it (like it is the case with mouse hover outline).

What would be the appropriate solution to this problem?

Thanks a lot!

[jeremytammik]

I am not aware of any support for this in the Revit API. Sorry.

Cheers,

Jeremy

[aignatovich]

Hi!

Perhaps, the best way to achieve this is element selection (why don't you want to do this?), but you can try AVF framework to draw something (element geometry in your case) with specific color(s)

[jeremytammik]

For the sake of completeness, some more details on the basic approach for selecting elements are given here:

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/highlight-element-during-startup/m-p/7770770

Cheers,

Jeremy