Remove Template from View

[Ryan]

Hi All,

I have been trying to figure out how to  remove an assigned View Template from a view; Set it to "None". I know how to find a view template and get its ID and assign to a view, but when i look for "None" it doesn't come through on the FEC.

Ive tried setting the View.ID to -1, but does't work.

Is there something Simple I'm missing?

Thanks!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

You can in this way :

View vw = doc.ActiveView;
Transaction tr = new Transaction(doc,"template to none");
tr.Start();
Parameter par = vw.GetParameter("View Template");
par.Set(new ElementId(-1));   <----------- I think what you did is just type par.Set(-1) and that doesn't work. SO you need to 'convert' the int to elementid
tr.Commit();

[Ryan]

Great! Thanks!

I didn't think of trying to convert the int to an ElementID.

[Anonymous]

In general this is the trick whenever you'll need to set a parameter of the elementId type. It's taken me some headache before I'll discovered this trick 🙂

[IAN~JAMES]

You are probably safer setting the value to ElementId.InvalidElementId as follows:

par.Set(ElementId.InvalidElementId);

So if anything changes under the hood in time to come, this should still work.

[v.slizen]

When I'm writing "View Template", for method "GetParameter" then it didn't converting "string" to "Autodesk.Revit.DB.ForgeTypeId"