How to set the active view?

[Thomas_Mahon]

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Here’s RequestViewChange() in action from a post 2 years old. You can’t call this method in the background as it’s a UI call…which can only be made when Revit is full fired up, not open on disk (which incidentally answers your other question).

Changing active view is temporarily disabled?

@chrisishere I’ve recently created a tool in Dynamo which needs to set a particular view. I thought I’d share this code snippet as there is another method you can use which does successfully set views. Its worth mentioning that you can’t set the uidoc.ActiveView in Revit’s Idling event. That’s a major drawback for Dynamo, since Dynamo operates inside this event (i.e. its not possible). Instead you need to use RequestViewChange(). Its executes asynchronously, so if you need to set a view first, t…