Where is "get_BoundingBox(None)"?

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Hello everyone! :grinning:
I did a search in revitapidocs.com and I did not find that method that I saw in other posts, I even tried it in my Python Code, and if it works.

But where did it come from? In revitapidocs.com I only found GetBoundingBox(), what’s the difference with it?

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I believe certain get/set parameters can be written that way, but there’s no difference as far as I’ve seen.

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I think it is one of these old, old things that just still works. That would be a very Autodesk thing to do.
Note that is show in the API examples under Element > BoubingBox.

From 2008:
The Building Coder: Element Bounding Box (typepad.com)

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Hi Nick!
I found this:

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Thanks to the link provided by @aaronrumple, and that documentation belongs to Revit API2009, from what I try to understand, those methods are still used, right?

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Overload properties used as methods. That kind of makes sense. Thanks for the info.

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Not sure why its not listed in RevitAPI docs, but its definitely there if you browse the Revit API in say Visual Studio:

Property overloading isn’t supported in C# so you have to use the method as the property can’t be used.

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Hi Thomas!

Wow, I can see the get_BoundingBox method there!, how do I get that API documentation?.
I have Visual Studio Code and it doesn’t appear in the autocompletion.
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Revit API 2023 (revitapidocs.com)

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It’s not there

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In the fine print.

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Note that the vb examples uses .BoundingBox, but C# uses .get_BoundingBox()

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Very similar question was recently asked on the API forums. It is a C# thing, not a Revit thing.

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