Automatic Viewport Section Cut

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Hey Yall,

I am currently working on a script that allows for the user to select the sheet and specific viewport that they want applied to all the sections on the sheet. I have been searching for a way to collect all the viewports that are listed in my project template. However whenever I use Categories->Viewports->All Elements of Category, it only shows up active viewports in the project. I would like to be able to pull from a viewport that is already loaded into the project just not on a sheet, but I can’t seem to find any node that satisfies this. I can really use any help I can get here

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Hello welcome ;)) guess you are after all viewport types in document, if that the case you can try something here

import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
from Autodesk.Revit.UI import *
clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
viewportTypes_all = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(ElementType).ToElements()
viewportTypes_all = [e for e in viewportTypes_all if e.FamilyName == "Viewport"]
OUT = viewportTypes_all
3

In later revit versions there should be a sheet.viewports node that ships with dynamo.

4

Many alternative ways to solve this, OOTB, archilab, Crumple and Python (full API solution)
Note: The OOTB version will have warnings due to non-convertible types for the Family Name

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import clr

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

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

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

bip = ElementId(BuiltInParameter.SYMBOL_FAMILY_NAME_PARAM)
pfrf = ParameterFilterRuleFactory.CreateEqualsRule(bip, "Viewport")
epf = ElementParameterFilter(pfrf)

OUT = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(ElementType).WherePasses(epf).ToElements()
5

yeah great many ways :wink: and if we already know the names for that in project or template, and guess we can find many other ways in many packages

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Another way (multilanguage).

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import clr
import sys
import System

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

clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

clr.AddReference("System.Core")
clr.ImportExtensions(System.Linq)


all_viewport_types = (
    FilteredElementCollector(doc)
    .WhereElementIsElementType()
    .Where(System.Func[DB.Element, System.Boolean](
        lambda x: x.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.VIEWPORT_ATTR_SHOW_LABEL) is not None
    ))
    .ToList()
)

OUT = all_viewport_types