Imported Categories override in View

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Hi,

I’m setting DWG line widths using object styles (thanks @Thomas_Mahon unfortunately the views are ignoring those settings, so i need to use visibility graphics…

However I can’t see an API method for this, would anyone be able to assist? Visibility is there and colour, but not line weight?

https://www.revitapidocs.com/2020/e2f50049-832c-9b72-70b1-2a0a96e16a60.htm

Actually, maybe it’s here…
https://www.revitapidocs.com/2020/1a43c153-cbaf-f89b-d298-93c6ff7d0ae0.htm

Cheers,

Mark

hmm… this only sets the object style, not the view :frowning:

importInstance = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
layerName = IN[1]
lineWeight = IN[2]
lineColour = Color(0,0,0)
	
subCategories = importInstance.Category.SubCategories
    
if subCategories.Contains(layerName):    
    TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)
    subCategories.get_Item(layerName).SetLineWeight(lineWeight, GraphicsStyleType.Projection)
    TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()
    OUT = 'success'
else:
      OUT = 'fail'
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Hi @Mark.Ackerley

May be create view template and apply it to views.

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Hi Kulkul,

Thanks unfortunately the problem is having several hundred layers which need their width to be set… Just for 1 view would be fine.

Is it an API limitation do you think?

Cheers,

Mark

Edit: If Revit would just recognise the object style setting, none of this would be a problem!

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Hi Mark,

If I understood correctly you can use the OOTB View.SetCategoryOverrides node.

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Neat Alban, will try it now :slight_smile:

EDIT: Yes! thanks a lot :smiley:

6

Just incase you’re interested… The goal was to align lineweights in dwgs with the company colour table…It was a bit tricky, because I needed to extract the sub category colours which related to the dwg links I’m interested in…

#thanks to Konrad and Luke J

import clr
import sys
pyt_path = r'C:\Program Files (x86)\IronPython 2.7\Lib'
sys.path.append(pyt_path)

# Import Element wrapper extension methods
clr.AddReference("RevitNodes")
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)
# toProtoType etc.
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)

# Import DocumentManager and TransactionManager
clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

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

nameEquals = IN[0]

gStyles = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(GraphicsStyle).ToElements()


#we need to get the name of the gStyle so we can filter to get the dwgs.... all the dwgs names will end in dwg
gStyleDwgCategoryList = []
for i in gStyles:
    if "dwg" in i.GraphicsStyleCategory.Name: 
        gStyleDwgCategoryList.append(i.GraphicsStyleCategory)

gStyleCategoryList = []
gStyleCategoryListName = []
#gStyleCategoryListColour = []

i = 0
while i < len(nameEquals):
    gStyleCategorySubList = []
    gStyleCategorySubListName = []
    gStyleCategorySubListColour = []
    for gSCat in gStyleDwgCategoryList:  
        if nameEquals[i] in gSCat.Name:
            gStyleCategorySubList.append(gSCat)
            gStyleCategorySubListName.append(gSCat.Name)
#            gStyleCategorySubListColour.append(gSCat.LineColor)            
    i = i + 1    
    gStyleCategoryList.append(gStyleCategorySubList)
    gStyleCategoryListName.append(gStyleCategorySubListName)
#    gStyleCategoryListColour.append(gStyleCategorySubListColour)

gStyleName = []
gStyleColour = []
for gSubL in gStyleCategoryList:
    gStyleSubCategories = []
    for gL in gSubL:
         gStyleSubCategories.append(gL.SubCategories)
         gStyleSubCategoriesList = [[] for i in range(0, len(gStyleSubCategories))]
         gStyleSubCategoriesListClr = [[] for i in range(0, len(gStyleSubCategories))]

    for index, item in enumerate(gStyleSubCategories):
        for i in item:
            gStyleSubCategoriesList[index].append(i.Name)

    for index, item in enumerate(gStyleSubCategories):
        for i in item:
            gStyleSubCategoriesListClr[index].append(i.LineColor)

    gStyleName.append(gStyleSubCategoriesList)
    gStyleColour.append(gStyleSubCategoriesListClr)

OUT =  gStyleCategoryListName, gStyleName, gStyleColour

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