How to open revit with empty metric template?

[Anonymous]

Revit 2017.1.1.

I need in Visual Studio to launch revit.exe with empty metric template. I.e. I need to do like the 0.png and 1.png attached screens but throught the command line arguments (look 3.png attached screen). I read this topic before but I didn't find the answer.

 How can I do it?

Thank you.

[matthew_taylor]

Hi again, @Anonymous.

Well, I'm sure you know about NewProjectDocument(unitSystem): http://www.revitapidocs.com/2017/b629d38d-daa3-5109-7e59-6cc12665d832.htm

But I'm guessing that this question is related to the other issue you posted about recently. No new ideas from my end.

Cheers,

-Matt

[Anonymous]

Hi Matt,

Thank you for your answer.

I know about NewProjectDocument, but it will not help me if my project is an external command instead of an external application. Am I right?

Of course, it is not a big problem and if it is not possible to do through the command line then I will use an external application instead of external command. But I just in case asked this question for to know for certain.  

> But I'm guessing that this question is related to the other issue you posted about recently. No new ideas from my end.

My decission of of that topic is: I am forced to use non-virtual machine and a local debugging.

[matthew_taylor · Accepted solution]

Hi @Anonymous,

Not sure. Try and report back.

If you don't have the virtual machine limitation, I'd just manually create a 'no template' project and save it to a known location, and use the previously documented methods of opening a document using Visual Studio. Or just open any file. Once you have any file open, you can create a 'no template' project.

Cheers,

-Matt