Read current projection line color/weight?

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Is there a way to read the current projection line color and/or weight of a list of elements in the current view? I have found lots of nodes that can overwrite them, but I don’t want to change them. I just want to generate a list of the current projection line colors.

Is this possible or is it a limitation due to the nature of the same element being able to have different projection line styles in different views?

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I set out to do this a while back. I was able to get the settings from the Visibility Graphics but if its set to default it returns -1. I was unable to find a way to gather the object styles in addition. It should give you a great start though. My post got hijacked before a resolution was found. Let me know how it goes.

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It looks like that gets you the category overrides, is there no way to get element overrides?

I can see the property through the api here.

But I don’t see a get method to use to actually obtain that property form the element.

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Oh sorry for the misunderstanding. I am not aware off the top oh my head how to go about doing that. Hopefully someone else will step in.

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Hi Luke,

I’ve the node Get Elements Overrides that probably does what you are looking for:

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thanks for this!

I looked in the node and it loads Color from DSCore.

How does one mortal know to load it from there when there is a Color Class in the Autodesk.Revit.DB Namespace ???

this always gets to me.

Later Edit:
ok i am a bit of a noob, thing is we need the Color from Dynamo and not Revit so I guess that’s why we need Color class from Dynamo and not from Revit :slight_smile:

Please correct me if i am wrong.