Export all drafting views in a Revit project as individual files

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Hers’s a python script to transfer Drafting Views based on Revit SDK Samples - Duplicate Views

I’ve used the standard template - I would suggest creating a stripped back template for this

From my limited testing you may extend this by also transferring the view settings such as scale etc.

This code has a subclassed interface handler IDuplicateTypeNamesHandler it will only work in IronPython versions 2 or 3

import traceback

import clr

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

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


# Duplicate Type name handler
class HideAndAcceptDuplicateTypeNamesHandler(IDuplicateTypeNamesHandler):
    def OnDuplicateTypeNamesFound(self, args):
        return DuplicateTypeAction.UseDestinationTypes


doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
uiapp = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication
app = uiapp.Application

# Paths
template = "C:\\ProgramData\\Autodesk\\RVT 2024\\Templates\\Default_M_ENU.rte"
out_path = "C:\\temp\\"

# Defaults
sao = SaveAsOptions()
sao.OverwriteExistingFile = True

copypasteoptions = CopyPasteOptions()
copypasteoptions.SetDuplicateTypeNamesHandler(HideAndAcceptDuplicateTypeNamesHandler())

# Drafting Views in current document
views = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(ViewDrafting).ToElements()

output = []

for view in views:
    # Get and filter elements
    collector = FilteredElementCollector(view.Document, view.Id)
    collector.WherePasses(ElementCategoryFilter(ElementId.InvalidElementId, True))

    elems = collector.ToElementIds()

    # Create doc
    new_doc = app.NewProjectDocument(template)
    with Transaction(new_doc, "Transfer Drafting View") as t:
        t.Start()

        viewfamilytype = next(
            vft
            for vft in FilteredElementCollector(new_doc).OfClass(ViewFamilyType)
            if vft.ViewFamily == ViewFamily.Drafting
        )

        try:
            new_view = ViewDrafting.Create(new_doc, viewfamilytype.Id)
            new_view.Name = view.Name
            ElementTransformUtils.CopyElements(
                view, elems, new_view, Transform.Identity, copypasteoptions
            )

        except Exception:
            output.append(traceback.format_exc())

        t.Commit()

        filepath = out_path + new_view.Name + ".rvt"

        new_doc.SaveAs(filepath, sao)
        new_doc.Close(False)

        output.append(filepath)

OUT = output
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