Select all in room

[codydet10]

I use "select all" and "select all in view" often. If we could have a "select all in room" command that would be a huge time saver!

[aaronrumple]

I suggest looking at pyRevit (or Dyanmo) and you can make all sorts of selection tools with just a few lines of code. pyRevit lets you quickly add on new buttons with no compiling of code.

This for instance grabs the room contents (even if you select more than one room) and adds them to your selection.

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
uiapp = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication
app = uiapp.Application
uidoc = uiapp.ActiveUIDocument

from System.Collections.Generic import List

#######OK NOW YOU CAN CODE########

myData = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
myRooms = uidoc.Selection.GetElementIds()

myRoomList = []
for myRoom in myRooms:
	if isinstance(doc.GetElement(myRoom), Autodesk.Revit.DB.Architecture.Room):
		myRoomList.append(doc.GetElement(myRoom))
mySelection = FilteredElementCollector(doc).WhereElementIsViewIndependent()#WhereElementIsNotElementType().ToElements()
myRoomStuff = []
for room in myRoomList:
	for e in mySelection:
		try:
			if room.IsPointInRoom(e.Location.Point):
				myRoomStuff.append(e.Id)
		except:
			pass
uidoc.Selection.SetElementIds(List[ElementId](myRoomStuff))
myResult = myRoomStuff

[MichaelWolff]

@aaronrumple Brilliant, but how do you get your code to run in pyRevit. All I get is an error message: "Name Error: name 'DocumentManager' is not defined". Is it, perhaps, a python script that is to run within Dynamo? Or a macro?