Elevation markers with C#

Developers
1

I’m trying to place elevation markers.
Works beautifully for the ground floor…
But any other floor it plonks them on the ground floor.

I cannot get them to place on any other floor! Why?
I’ve even tried hard coding my first floor height in! But it still puts them on the ground floor.

        //Places an elevation marker and creates 4 views. Logs the 4 views in a list. 
        public static List<ViewSection> CreateElevationViewsAtPoint(
            Document doc, View planView, XYZ location, ElementId elevationTypeId, int markerSize = 100)
        {
            XYZ loc = new XYZ(0, 0, UnitUtils.ConvertToInternalUnits(3000, UnitTypeId.Millimeters));  //test Z coord

            ElevationMarker marker = ElevationMarker.CreateElevationMarker(doc, elevationTypeId, loc, markerSize);
            if (marker == null)
                return new List<ViewSection>();

            int[] desiredOrder = { 1, 2, 3, 0 };
            var views = new List<ViewSection>();
            foreach (int dir in desiredOrder)
            {
                try
                {
                    ViewSection view = marker.CreateElevation(doc, planView.Id, dir);
                    if (view != null)
                        views.Add(view);
                }
                catch
                {
                    // probably should add something here...
                }
            }

            return views;
        }

calling it like this

List<ViewSection> views = HelpersRevitViews.CreateElevationViewsAtPoint(doc, activeView, point, elevationTypeId);

doc and active view are correct (checked 1000x)
point I’m getting from base of room (yes I’ve checked the Z but as you see above I even hard coded it).

Any ideas?

2

Markers typically show up based on if their pointer views are visible in the cut range of plans. I suspect that will be the reason

3

Thanks, i’ll have another look… But probably not till Monday as my eyes hurt from staring at the screen and my brain hurts from going, “wtf, wtf, nooooo, wtf, whyyyy, arrrgh” etc. :smile: