Create Rooms, Is this Possible

[fwp]

I've spent hours searching the API docs and web and can't find an answer to this...

CreateRoom has a method that takes a level and UV point as parameters. Is there a way to get the UV point from a user clicking the floor plan view during an active API session?

My goal is provide the user with a list of rooms to place and have them select a room from the list in form, click a point on the floor plan view and create the room via the API. I've been unable to find a method to do so. PromptForFamilyInstancePlacement seem the only method in the API to place item based on a user click. The only FamilySymbol I see associated with rooms is the Area Tag, don't I need a room to place a tag?

So, is this possible? Can a UV point be created by a user click in an API session?

Thanks,
Frank

[Dimitri Harvalias]

Frank,
I'm not an API expert but what you are describing is pretty much default Revit behavior.
If the list of Rooms is in a project (created in a schedule in the. Project or imported/created via API) then the user only needs to initiate the room command, look on the options bar and select the room from the pull down list and place it in the project.
I'm not sure where the added benefit or functionality is if you 'automate' this process through the API.

[mmason.65315]

Yes,
The UIDocument.PickPoint returns an XYZ, but I believe in the case of a plan view, you'll be able to create a new UV point using the X and Y coordinates.
-Matt

[truevis]

In the Revit 2012 SDK, ElementsBatchCreation provides clues to creating new elements in Revit.

See also: http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/...eparation.html