How to Set the starting view in current project file with python?

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How to Set the starting view in current project file with python?

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Have you taken a look at this?

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I do not know what to do with this

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That’s the class for the starting view settings. If you look at its members you’ll see it has a property for setting the view.

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# Boilerplate text
import clr

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

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

targetView = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
targetId = targetView.Id

# Current doc/app/ui
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
svs = StartingViewSettings.GetStartingViewSettings(doc)

# Do some action in a Transaction
TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)

if svs.IsAcceptableStartingView(targetId):

	try:
		svs.ViewId = targetView.Id
		OUT = "Start view updated."
	except:
		OUT = "Start view unable to be updated."

else:
	OUT = "View is not an accceptable start view."

TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()
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@ruben.romero too many options for that:
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Noting 3 out of 4 of those are zero touch, only one in Python. I’d hazard a guess clockworks node is similar to the above.

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would be fantastic to have it in your @GavinCrump package, easy and useful as always, thanks

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