Export image with adjusted crop region

This has been an all day effort, but unfortunately I am still stuck. I am trying to export an image without cropping the outer-most pixels. I thought by adjusting the crop region I could do this. But the archi-lab _view variable does not accept what I thought to be the adjusted view region. So I am back at step one. I am looking into writing something in the .api, but no luck so far.

This post includes this code, which based on a lot of research seems to be the only way to overcome this problem. I can include links to other posts on other forums on my journey so far.

drafting.CropBoxActive = true;
drafting.CropBoxVisible = true;

private static void ExtendViewCrop(View drafting, Group detail)
        {
            BoundingBoxXYZ crop = (drafting!= null ? drafting.CropBox : null);
            if (crop == null || crop.Max == null || crop.Min == null || crop.Transform == null || detail == null)
                return;
            BoundingBoxXYZ detailBox = detail.get_BoundingBox(drafting);
            BoundingBoxXYZ extendedCrop = new BoundingBoxXYZ();
            extendedCrop.Transform = crop.Transform;

            if (detailBox == null || detailBox.Max == null || detailBox.Min == null)
                return;

            extendedCrop.Max = detailBox.Max + (extendedCrop.Transform.BasisX + extendedCrop.Transform.BasisY / 2) * 0.03;
            extendedCrop.Min = detailBox.Min + (-extendedCrop.Transform.BasisX + -extendedCrop.Transform.BasisY / 2) * 0.03;
            drafting.CropBox = extendedCrop;
        }

Capture_Image.dyn (89.0 KB)

If anyone has any idea about how to solve, I would love to hear about it.

My …dll attempt at code is here:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Autodesk.Revit.ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.Revit.Attributes;
using Autodesk.Revit.DB;
using Autodesk.Revit.UI;
using Autodesk.Revit.UI.Selection;
using Autodesk.Revit.DB.Architecture;


namespace AdjustCropView
{
    [Transaction(TransactionMode.Manual)]
    [Regeneration(RegenerationOption.Manual)]
    public class Class1 : IExternalCommand
    {

        public Result Execute(ExternalCommandData commandData, ref string message, ElementSet elements)
        {
            //Get application 
            UIApplication uiapp = commandData.Application;

            //Get document objects
            Document doc = uiapp.ActiveUIDocument.Document;

            //Get active view
            View view = doc.ActiveView;

            //Create empty variable to contain element Id's. 
            ElementId elemId = null;

            //Get visible element Id's using filtered collector.
            FilteredElementCollector collector = new FilteredElementCollector(doc, elemId);

            //Get visible family element
            //View elemView = GetBoundingBox(view);

            //Turn on crop box and its visibility
            
                
                using (Transaction tr = new Transaction(doc))
            {
                tr.Start("Transform crop view");

                view.CropBoxActive = true;
                view.CropBoxVisible = true;


            //Create bounding box objects
            BoundingBoxXYZ crop = view.CropBox;
            BoundingBoxXYZ detailBox = view.get_BoundingBox(null);
            BoundingBoxXYZ extendedCrop = new BoundingBoxXYZ();
            extendedCrop.Transform = crop.Transform;

            //Modifying the extended crop box
            extendedCrop.Max = detailBox.Max + (extendedCrop.Transform.BasisX + extendedCrop.Transform.BasisY / 2) * 0.03;
            extendedCrop.Min = detailBox.Min + (-extendedCrop.Transform.BasisX + -extendedCrop.Transform.BasisY / 2) * 0.03;


            //Transforming the current active view crop box


                view.CropBox = extendedCrop;

                tr.Commit();
            }


            return Result.Succeeded;

        }

    }
}

Okay, so after a few too many hours at this. I figured this out, and in the process found some pretty odd behavior. The Views.SetCropBox node seems to be working as expected, however, when I tried to create a new bounding box using the BoundingBox.ByCorners node, the Views.SetCropBox node would not accept this input. So I had to recreate the bounding box by using the BoundingBox.ToPolySurface node and then create a new bounding box from that.

I am pretty happy with this result. Can I elevate this problem with the BoundingBox.ByCorners node to anyone? Seems like it is probably an easy bug to fix.