Hey guys, I was sketching out an idea earlier on running a background script to open one family and potentially all families within a folder, and then performing a zoom extent on all views of said family(es)–saving–closing. Later perhaps compressing all these families could also be incorporated int…

Not sure if you’re on the right path but setting the active view to the default 3D view would also be pretty awesome so users could see what they are loading in.

Yes! you’re right. I’m still playing around maybe I’ll post something more developed later. I figured I’d test the waters first

Hi @carlosguzman , I’m thinking you will need access to this method: http://www.revitapidocs.com/2018.1/535f4910-37e0-0f46-924a-443899587d95.htm Not too sure if that is available in any packages yet. :thinking: Additionally, it seems like this method is available for the UIDocument which I am als…

So as a background opened file, it is a no go from a Dynamo standpoint. [image] After that error, I went ahead and tried activating a new document which would allow this change ( http://www.revitapidocs.com/2018.1/5018fbdb-e7c3-6e32-7ca3-ee5c20dbc56f.htm ) . But, with Dynamo constantly having a tran…

I wonder if this is where a transaction start/end would come in handy. Maybe it needs to completely load the file before running anything on it? I could be way out of line here…

Yeah I attempted to force close the Dynamo transaction, and I still received that error.

Perhaps @erfajo has some insight he can share?

Zoom extents on all views of background document

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carlosguzman February 7, 2018, 3:21pm 5

Awesome @john_pierson thanks a lot!

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