Get view template of 3D view

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Hi Guys,

have any of you goto any ideas how to get the view template as element of an 3D view? ive tryied everything but no luck :frowning: ive also tryied the revitlookup table.

hope to hear from you guys

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Hi @wihibyusuf,

This is a known limitation of Dynamo.

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Use the property accessor:

viewTemplateId = view.ViewTemplateId 

templateElement = doc.GetElement(viewTemplateId)
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Hi @wihibyusuf

I don’t think it is possible to get a Dynamo 3D view of the ViewTemplate.

It is possible to get the API object for the viewTemplate. Dynamo constantly tries to wrap the API object to a Dynamo object (which results in a Null for 3D view templates)

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This also returns a null for me, Dynamo tries to wrap the API 3D View into a Dynamo 3D view

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yes thank you @Joelmick ive noticed the same thing. still im getting nulls :frowning:

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mee too also

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Spring nodes implemented a node to collect all of them.

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within his node he actually wrapped the 3d view templates himself:

import clr

clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
import Autodesk.Revit.DB as DB

clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)

ueWrapper = None
wrappers = clr.GetClrType(Revit.Elements.ElementWrapper).GetMethods()
for w in wrappers:
	if w.ToString().startswith("Revit.Elements.UnknownElement"):
		ueWrapper = w
		break

fec = DB.FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(DB.View3D)
OUT = []
for i in fec:
	if i.IsTemplate:
		OUT.append(ueWrapper.Invoke(None, (i, True) ))
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Hi @john_pierson do you know if there is another similar node that works to get the templates associate at the 3D views inside the linked models in a project?
Thank you
Cheers

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You can use the View ByName or the SelectByCateOrType nodes for 3D view templates.

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Hi @Alban_de_Chasteigner , thank you very much for your answer, but I would like to get the Template Name from my 3D view from the linked model like below:

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Thank you for your efforts
Cheers

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GetParameterValueByName works only in the current document and not for the linked documents.

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Thank you @Alban_de_Chasteigner , for your answer, yes you are right, but I have the same result with “View.ViewTemplate” node from Clockwork, is there another note to do this task?

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Cheers

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Hi @Alban_de_Chasteigner I figured out , it’s something funny, if in a 3D view a template is created from a 3D view I can’t get it, but if the template came (from example) from floor plan view it’s works…
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any thoughts?
Cheers

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It has already been answered in posts 8 and 10.

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Hi @Alban_de_Chasteigner excuse me but the object of the post is “Get view template of 3D view”, and I thoughts that is useful also for others that you can Get view template of 3D view, if the Template that is applyed is not generate from a 3D view. I hope that make sense.
Thank you for your time
Have a good day
Cheers

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Sorry but that’s not true now.
Dimitar Venkov found a solution, @john_pierson showed it in post 8.
I also integrated this method into a few nodes, see post 10 (crediting Dimitar into the custom nodes)

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Hi @Alban_de_Chasteigner yes of course you are right, my problems it was to get the name of 3D view template applyed on the 3D view of linked files, I found another workaround with schedule view. Thanks