Inheriting Autodesk.Revit.DB.View

[BrentBurgess1980]

Is it possible to derive a class from Autodesk.Revit.DB.View and if so how? I get

'View' does not contain a constructor that takes 0 arguments, which suggests to me that it can be inherited, like View3D etc is.

Thanks,

Brent

[RPTHOMAS108 · Accepted solution]

Although not marked Sealed/NotInheritable the majority if not all of the RevitAPI objects have a private parameterless constructor for the purpose of preventing inheritance or instantiating object with the New keyword. 

Given the lifecycle of RevitAPI objects it would probably be not a good idea to inherit such things to extend their functionality. You can use extension methods.

[BrentBurgess1980]

That makes sense. I thought the answer was more than likely no bit thought I'd check.

[kent123]

Are the following new 2026.2 tools related to OR could be used for the areas/workflow that you are talking about?

command name: Open (commandID: ID_DBVIEW_OPEN)

command name: Open Sheet (commandID: ID_DBVIEW_OPEN_SHEET_CANVAS_OPTION)