Dynamo is not pointing at the current document

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Hi all,
It seems that in Revit, Dynamo is rather “bound” to the document which was open in Revit when Dynamo was started, than Revit itself.
After having opened a different document in Revit, is there another way of letting Dynamo point to the currently active document, than closing Dynamo, and restarting it from the current document?

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Thanks,
GG

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im inclined to say there isn’t for now. but there’re ways u can get the open documents then do something with them afterwards.

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Okay, thanks. :slight_smile:

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The Revit API limits ‘conversation’ between an add-in and Revit to one document at a time.

As such if you’ve got Graph A open for File A, and then you want to run Graph A on File B you need to close the Dynamo file (I believe closing the graph will work - not Dynamo) and reopen it. Note that if you close File A the active Dynamo session (not just the workspace) will close.

I believe that Dynamo Player handles document switching better, but it’s been awhile since I’ve tested.

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Thanks, Jacob!

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Can confirm Player handles this well, at least in the new UX it definitely does - it will typically update when you switch models with a slight 1-2 second refresh.

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