Placing Structural Families with Revit's Modify Tab

[dfox]

Hi All,

I'm working on a plugin to place structural beams and columns in Revit. I would like the UI when placing families to be the same as the one when using the built in Structural>Beam or Structural>Column buttons. Primarily, I want the functionality in the red box. I have tried using PromptForFamilyInstancePlacement and PostRequestForElementTypePlacement (suggested in this post https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/promptforfamilyinstanceplacement-disables-some-menu-o...), but these don't do what I would like. Is there a way to do this? I have also tried looking into PromptForFamilyInstancePlacementOptions but the documentation isn't as helpful as I would like and I haven't made any progress in that direction. 

What it looks like with built in

What it looks like with PostRequestForElementTypePlacement

What it looks like with PromptForFamilyInstancePlacement

[Moustafa_K]

you need to use the beam postable command

uiDoc.Application.PostCommand(RevitCommandId.LookupPostableCommandId(PostableCommand.Beam));

[dfox]

Thanks! I would like to be able to pass the family I would like to place to the built in command, but it looks like I can't do that.

I'm thinking it might be possible to programmatically manipulate the UI to use the search bar and enter the family type to place, but that's beyond what I know what to do.

[Moustafa_K · Accepted solution]

Oh now i got what you are upto. Unfortunately, you can not have a hybird mode between UI and api

[dfox]

Dam. I got to ~95% of what I wanted to do anyways so its still alright. Thanks