All available detail view and section types

[kboschJGDNZ]

Hey

I want to be able to filter all available “detail view” and “section” types in a project so I can select one of them in a userinterface.

I have no clue how to approach this.

Anyone?

I’ve made it till this point, but filtering out sections and detail views is still a question mark.

[Ewan_Opie]

Hi @kboschJGDNZ

Give this a try?

import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
import Autodesk
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

detail_result = []
section_result = []

# Get all ViewFamilyType
view_family_types = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(ViewFamilyType).ToElements()

# Iterate through the collected ViewFamilyType elements
for view_family_type in view_family_types:
    type_check = view_family_type.ViewFamily
    type_name = view_family_type.LookupParameter('Type Name').AsValueString()
    # Check the type
    if type_check == ViewFamily.Detail:
        detail_result.append([view_family_type,type_name])
    elif type_check == ViewFamily.Section:
        section_result.append([view_family_type,type_name])
    else:
        # Not one of the required types
        pass
        
OUT = detail_result,section_result

[kboschJGDNZ]

Thanks, that works perfectly: