Is there a way to have the View names of interior elevation tags read the room names?

[jamie.casile80054]

I've searched around, but couldn't find anything on this. Is there a way to have the View names of interior elevation tags read the room names? so instead of Elevation - 1a, Elevation - 1b, etc, it will read Office A, Office B, etc.
Aloha,
jamie

[jaideep.venkatesh]

You could set the VIEW_NAME built-in-parameter to the room names

[jamie.casile80054]

thanks for the reply, but what i am looking for is to have it automatically call in the room name of the room it is being placed into.

thanks,
jamie

[GuyR]

I haven't confirmed this but I don't think elevation tags will be room aware.What you do need to decide is how to select matching rooms/views. The easiest way is probably something like this (psuedo code):

User selects one tag/ one room.
Check only one tag and it's an elevation tag.
Check for one room or room tag.(You could do either or both as an option)
No, you can't use a room tag to do this.
Rename elevation to room.

HTH,

Guy

[GuyR]

Jamie,

Find attached simple (ie: not much error checking) command doing what you want with sourcecode . Also a video tutorial in the source directory. Just open the .htm file and the flash video should run.

Note: If you don't put the .dll in the c:\ directory you'll need to change the ini file accordingly.

HTH,

Guy

[ToddVB]

Guy,

I've been following this thread & downloaded the zip file. It sounds like a great tool and I would like to see it in action. I tried to run the htm file have not beeen successful. When opening in explorer the progress bar gets about halfway and stops. I have the latest Flash player installed. Do you know why the file won't run? or can you send it in another format like PDF?

Thanks,

Todd

[GuyR]

Do you know why the file won't run?

I'm using wink to create the video and this is a bug on some windows systems apparently.Thanks for letting me know. Hopefully the attached(larger) flash exe will work for you.

HTH,

Guy

[ToddVB]

Guy,

Thanks, now I need to learn more about API in order to learn where to place the files.

Todd

[frank.graham]

Did you rewrite the API to turn off the text for the Interior Elevation Tag?
Is there a way yo do this with out changing the API?

[GuyR]

Thanks, now I need to learn more about API in order to learn where to place the files.

Todd,

Make sure Revit isn't running.

The .dll can go in any directory. A good choice is something like C:\APICommands. Then go to the program directory of Revit V9. Probably C:\Program Files\Autodesk Revit Building 9\Program.
In this directory there is a file called Revit.ini. Open this file (double click) and you should be in notepad, a text editor. Go to the end of the file and add this text

[ExternalCommands]
ECCount=1

ECName1="Elevation Views"
ECDescription1="Rename Elevation Views"
ECClassName1=RenameElevation.Command
ECAssembly1="C:\APICommands\RenameElevation.dll"

Changing the ECAssembly1 depending on where you put the dll. Save and close the file. Run Revit and under tools->external tools there will be the command to run.

HTH,

Guy