Hello Dynamo Cummunity
I have 2 identical PlanViews on a sheet, view left has been rotatet.rotate view right by the same angle that view left has been rotatet.
After searching the forum i found a python script for rotating views.
Hi Vo,
Once you place a view on a sheet, it becomes a viewport element. Those have a location property that we can access through the API. Here’s a little example, I decided to dust off my UI nodes for it:
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Here’s the code. Once you ignore the default inputs it’s pretty simple:
import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
c…
It does work, but i don´t understand the input number. For example, if i use input “3” the view will rotate 180°.
I also have no idea how i can get the rotation angle of a view.
So i ask for your help and would be really happy about any advice!
Hi @gerhard.p ,
As explained in the post you linked, the difficulty isn’t to rotate the cropbox of a view but to get the rotation of the another view.
Good luck !
Thanks Alban,
So i have to find a workaround to get the rotation angle, in my example that would be to get the “rotation” of the Column.
So it’s possible to retrieve the rotation of the CropBox and set the rotation of another CropBox.
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Amazing! Looking forward to test it tomorrow and i will post my experiences!
Hello Alban,
I did a few tests and it is working fine, thank you so much for your help!
With view.GetCropRegion.Element from Rhythm i should be able to get this to work in one of my scripts!
After more testing i found a problem. The problem is that i don´t get the rotation of a view, what i would like. I get the angle of the cropbox.
Here i have 2 examples of views that have not been rotatet , they have the original orientation of the Project.
In example one i get 0° rotation, nice.
In example two, instead of 0° i get 64.51
and this leads to the following result when i create a new Planview and try to set the same rotation to it:
What does work perfect is if the view has a rotation :
This view has a rotation and it is applied correctly to another view.
So the problem case is if a view has no rotation, but the cropbox is not horizontal…it seems…
I just figured out what the Problem is.
Before you can read out the Rotation Angle of a view you have to use the function Reset Crop!
Now i just have to find out how to do that in dynamo.
Here you can see a View without a rotation that gives me a “false” rotation. After resetting crop i get 0° and thats what i want.
