Get Click Location in 2D Views

[Jin]

Get Click location in 2D view

Hi all, I was wondering if it was possible to get the 2D location((x,y) or (x,z) or (y,z)) of a click in a Revit 2D view). It would be wonderful I think ! Does anyone has any idea ? Thank you so much

In another post, I found that “uidoc.Selection.PickPoint” just works on Floor plan view.
Is there anyway to get point in RCP, Elevation, Section?

[Mark.Ackerley]

Hey,

There’s a link to a work around where you generate a workplane from a sketchplane created from the section / elevation view…

Is it possible to prompt pickpoint in revit section view from dynamo?

Use the :snowflake:_Set Sketchplane By View node and then the :snowflake:_Pick Points on Workplane from the Sastrugi package, as it uses the same Pickpoint method with a reset function. Setting the sketchplane when the Active view is the sheet before picking the points should do the trick You can use the Passthrough node from the Clockwork package to force the run order.

I presume that doesn’t work for you? Could you give a little detail ?

Kind regards,

Mark

[Jin]

Can we create a workplane by current active view itself?
And is there any function in python to Pickpoint on workplane?
I’m so afraid of using external packages. It often gets errors, conflicts,…

[Mark.Ackerley]

Hey,

You can dig around in @Ewan_Opie’s code and have a look if you don’t want to use the package directly.

Here’s kind of what the code would look like, I haven’t tested it, but hopefully it gives you an idea…

Hope that helps,

Mark

import clr
clr.AddReference('ProtoGeometry')
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *

clr.AddReference("RevitNodes")
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)

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

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

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

origin = doc.ActiveView.Origin
normal = doc.ActiveView.ViewDirection

TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)

plane = Autodesk.Revit.DB.Plane.CreateByNormalAndOrigin(normal,origin)
doc.ActiveView.SketchPlane = sp
pickPoint = doc.Selection.PickPoint()

TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

OUT = sp

[Jin]

@Mark.Ackerley

Mark

Thank you very much! I got your idea. I try it now!

[Jin]

Some edited line:
Add uidoc
Add sp creating
Selection.PickPoint work with uidoc
Thank you very much!

import clr
clr.AddReference('ProtoGeometry')
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *

clr.AddReference("RevitNodes")
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)

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

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

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
# --------------add Active UI Document
uidoc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication.ActiveUIDocument
uiapp = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication
app = uiapp.Application 

origin = doc.ActiveView.Origin
normal = doc.ActiveView.ViewDirection

TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)

plane = Autodesk.Revit.DB.Plane.CreateByNormalAndOrigin(normal,origin)
# ------------Add sp creating
sp = SketchPlane.Create(doc,plane)
doc.ActiveView.SketchPlane = sp
# ------------Selection Pickpoint workwith 'uidoc'
pickPoint = uidoc.Selection.PickPoint()

TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

OUT = sp