In Revit, the View and the CropBox have different element Ids. If I want override the crop region outline in a given view, I need to get the cropbox outline in the view. Unfortunately, it has the same Category and Type as the View. I can’t find an api method to get the CropBox from the View. However…

The view name seems to be the only thing connecting them. It should also be a pretty robust option because view names must be unique. You could try the following to get the view from the crop element: [2016-02-12_11-37-45] Or this if you want to get the crop element from the view: [2016-02-12_11…

Note: this method was actually successful, I just want it to be more safe: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/de0790ad-6a76-47b7-a08b-1871f112b163

Hi Luke, You’ll find those elements if you probe the built in Viewers category: [2016-02-12_10-40-44]

Awesome Dimitar! Thanks. What would be the best way to map a given View to these Elements. View Name might be too generic?

if you got a view and want to find the crop box element for that view there is another option: you can turn off the crop box (view.CropBoxVisible = False) then select all elements in a view using the FilteredElementCollector(doc, view.id ).ToElementIds() Then the CropBox back on Finally u…

I packaged up Dimitar’s code and the view name matching method into this node: http://dynamonodes.com/2016/02/12/get-crop-box-list-from-view-list/

Have a look at this post as well: [image] Rotate crop views on sheet Developers Why not? It’s pretty simple. Here’s some code: def RotateCropBox(view, cropBox, angle): doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument bbox = view.CropBox center = 0.5 * (bbox…

Get CropBox Element from a View Element

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Konrad_K_Sobon June 6, 2016, 9:38pm 8

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Get CropBox Element from a View Element

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