Override Line Pattern Crop Region View

Revit
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Great to hear and welcome to the Dynamo Forum!

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Welcome on board @NoD and good luck for your work! Sharing is important!

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Hello! Very new to Dynamo and to the forum. After I open and run the graph, what do I do in Revit to get the crop regions to change per my desired line type?

Thank you, -Kyle

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Hi Kchristol,

Once you run the dynamo script, your crop region will be overridden so you dont have to do anything in Revit when you are making changes via Dynamo.

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Well I guess it didn’t work but we’re going to continue hiding all crops in the project making it moot.
Thank you!

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Hi @kchristol , Can you share an image or your work file to examine better your issue?

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Hi I am trying to run this script, no warnings came but nothing happened.

Please share below info :
#essential packages required
#updated dynamo script

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It looks like you have all needed packages except for Rhythm.

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Hi …Thanks it worked for all sections and Elevations …But not working for callouts …

Note: i am not sure if it can override the crop boundaries of Floor Plan/Ceiling Plan.

Regards,
Dipti

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Rhythm has some robust nodes for overriding crop regions as well, maybe look for/try those instead.

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Hi… Rythm Node for 2021 seems Depreciated. Do we have another node or Workaround for overriding the crop boundary element ?

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There is an API based solution here:

As the user mentions you can get a view’s cropbox by dropping 1 below the view Id.

I’ve added a node to the next build of Crumple, but this is the base code for it:

# Made by Gavin Crump
# Free for use
# BIM Guru, www.bimguru.com.au

# Boilerplate text
import clr

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

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

# Current doc/app/ui
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

# Define list/unwrap list functions
def uwlist(input):
    result = input if isinstance(input, list) else [input]
    return UnwrapElement(result)

# Preparing input from dynamo to revit
views = uwlist(IN[0])
thickness = IN[1]

settings = OverrideGraphicSettings().SetProjectionLineWeight(thickness)
outcomes = []

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

for v in views:
	cropBoxId = ElementId(v.Id.IntegerValue - 1)
	try:
		v.SetElementOverrides(cropBoxId, settings)
		outcomes.append(True)
	except:
		outcomes.append(False)

TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

# Output and Changing element to Dynamo for export
# <element>.ToDSType(True), #Not created in script, mark as Revit-owned
# <element>.ToDSType(False) #Created in script, mark as non-Revit-owned

# Preparing output to Dynamo
OUT = outcomes

Note this only works for elevations as Revit cannot override other view crop types.