Activate/Deactivate View on Sheet

[gerhard.p]

Now i found some threads about this topic and i tested the method “RequestViewChange()”.

This works and opens the selected view.
I tried if this also works for a sheet, but it doesnt. So it does’t help for my problem.

But in the information to this method i found something interesting:

Remarks

This method requests to change the active view by posting a message asynchronously. Unlike setting the ActiveView property, this will not make the change in active view immediately. Instead the request will be posted to occur when control returns to Revit from the API context. This method is permitted to change the active view from the Idling event or an ExternalEvent callback.

So there should be a “set active view” method and it should even work immideatly!

Changing active view is temporarily disabled?

@chrisishere I’ve recently created a tool in Dynamo which needs to set a particular view. I thought I’d share this code snippet as there is another method you can use which does successfully set views. Its worth mentioning that you can’t set the uidoc.ActiveView in Revit’s Idling event. That’s a major drawback for Dynamo, since Dynamo operates inside this event (i.e. its not possible). Instead you need to use RequestViewChange(). Its executes asynchronously, so if you need to set a view first, t…