Building Coder: Retrieving Elements Visible in View

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Building Coder: Retrieving Elements Visible in View

May 29, 2017, 10:15 AM

Minho re-opened the Revit API discussion forum thread on getting the ElementId of all visible entities in a viewport, providing a good opportunity to mention Colin Stark's answer to the StackOverflow thread on determining whether a FamilyInstance is visible in a View. Question: I am looking for code to get the ElementIds of all entities inside a viewport. A viewport is a region of a big view plan...

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