Find view(s) that a selected object is in
Thanks for all the help. I was able to write(modify) a Dynamo/Python script that allows you to select an object and find the views and sheets that the object appears in...
Here's the dynamo script. Very useful to us!
import clr
clr.AddReference("ProtoGeometry")
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *
# Import DocumentManager and TransactionManager
clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager
# Import RevitAPI
clr.AddReference("RevitAPI")
import Autodesk
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
elementz = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
viewtemplates = list()
views = list()
viewcollector = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(View)
sheetcollector = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(ViewSheet)
for view in viewcollector:
if view.IsTemplate == True:
viewtemplates.append(view)
else:
views.append(view)
viewmatches = list()
viewmatchez = list()
for v in views:
viewelemidz=[]
viewelems = list()
viewelems = FilteredElementCollector(doc,v.Id)
for viewelem in viewelems:
viewelemidz.append(viewelem.Id)
for i in range(0,1):
elem = elementz
elemid = elem.Id
viewmatchez = viewmatches
if elemid in viewelemidz:
viewmatchez.append(v)
sheetz = list()
for sheet in sheetcollector:
sheetz.append(sheet)
elsheetmatches = list()
for i in range(0,1):
elviewmatches = viewmatches
elsheets = list()
for viewmatch in elviewmatches:
sheetnum = viewmatch.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEWER_SHEET_NUMBER).AsString()
if sheetnum != '-':
for sheetel in sheetz:
if sheetel.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.SHEET_NUMBER).AsString() == sheetnum:
elsheets.append(sheetel)
elsheetmatches = elsheets
OUT = viewmatches, elsheetmatches
@davidjimm wrote:Thanks for all the help. I was able to write(modify) a Dynamo/Python script that allows you to select an object and find the views and sheets that the object appears in...
Here's the dynamo script. Very useful to us!
How is knowing that the element is in 36 views useful exactly?
PS: when you copy a code, have the decency to provide a link to where it was copied from
https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/find-views-and-sheets-that-show-a-specific-element/1921/5
Yeah, my first post here. Thanks for the heads up about posting where I copied it from.
To answer your question, in the project I showed an example from we have well over a thousand views, and somewhere in the range of 100 sheets.
To be able to narrow this down 32 views and 4 sheets is extremely helpful!
The key is looking for what sheets this object is on for us. Finding the views is usually just a means to find the sheets.
I open those 4 sheets, and the go to the 3D view and highlight the object. Then pan through the see where it is.
If I do have to open and page through 32 views it's a lot easier than opening 1119 views to look for it.
Thanks again for trying to help 😁. And for setting me straight on posting the link I got the original code from.
I need the SHEETS that the object is on, per the original post. "We are in a large project, and I would like to be able to select an object and find the sheet it is on."
If I right click on an object and go to find referring views...
These are the views I get that refer to this object. Of those views only a few of them will actually be put on sheets. To find those sheets I would have to open up all those views.
If I run the dynamo/script, it gives me the 3 sheet names that have this object on it (SC-1214,SC-1123,C-0106)
I think it's helpful. If you don't I understand.
Ok, here's the Dynamo file from Revit 2021.
Just for some clarification, I left the first "select" node blank. If you leave that node blank, when the users run it in the player it will ask for an object. If you fill it in, it will use that object and not ask.
Maybe 2022 has a different Python version than this, hopefully you can still get it to work. I'd be happy to do anything else you can think of.
I'm going to post the picture, code, and try to attach the file also. A little redundant, but maybe it will help.
import clr
clr.AddReference("ProtoGeometry")
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *
# Import DocumentManager and TransactionManager
clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager
# Import RevitAPI
clr.AddReference("RevitAPI")
import Autodesk
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
elementz = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
viewtemplates = list()
views = list()
viewcollector = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(View)
sheetcollector = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(ViewSheet)
for view in viewcollector:
if view.IsTemplate == True:
viewtemplates.append(view)
else:
views.append(view)
viewmatches = list()
viewmatchez = list()
for v in views:
viewelemidz=[]
viewelems = list()
viewelems = FilteredElementCollector(doc,v.Id)
for viewelem in viewelems:
viewelemidz.append(viewelem.Id)
for i in range(0,1):
elem = elementz
elemid = elem.Id
viewmatchez = viewmatches
if elemid in viewelemidz:
viewmatchez.append(v)
sheetz = list()
for sheet in sheetcollector:
sheetz.append(sheet)
elsheetmatches = list()
for i in range(0,1):
elviewmatches = viewmatches
elsheets = list()
for viewmatch in elviewmatches:
sheetnum = viewmatch.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEWER_SHEET_NUMBER).AsString()
if sheetnum != '-':
for sheetel in sheetz:
if sheetel.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.SHEET_NUMBER).AsString() == sheetnum:
elsheets.append(sheetel)
elsheetmatches = elsheets
OUT = viewmatches, elsheetmatches
