/// <summary>
/// Rename all the sheets in the project. This opens a transaction, and it MUST be executed
/// in a "Valid Revit API Context", otherwise the add-in will crash. Because of this, we must
/// wrap it in a ExternalEventHandler, as we do in the App.cs file in this template.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ui">An instance of our UI class, which in this template is the main WPF
/// window of the application.</param>
/// <param name="doc">The Revit Document to rename sheets in.</param>
public static void SheetRename(BridgeProUi ui, Document doc)
{
Util.LogThreadInfo("Sheet Rename Method");
// get sheets - note that this may be replaced with the Async Task method above,
// however that will only work if we want to only PULL data from the sheets,
// and executing a transaction like below from an async collection, will crash the app
List <ViewSheet> sheets = new FilteredElementCollector(doc)
.OfClass(typeof(ViewSheet))
.Select(p => (ViewSheet)p).ToList();
// report results - push the task off to another thread
Task.Run(() =>
{
Util.LogThreadInfo("Sheet Rename Show Results");
// report the count
string message = $"There are {sheets.Count} Sheets in the project";
ui.Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
ui.TbDebug.Text += "\n" + (DateTime.Now).ToLongTimeString() + "\t" + message);
});
// rename all the sheets, but first open a transaction
using (Transaction t = new Transaction(doc, "Rename Sheets"))
{
Util.LogThreadInfo("Sheet Rename Transaction");
// start a transaction within the valid Revit API context
t.Start("Rename Sheets");
// loop over the collection of sheets using LINQ syntax
foreach (string renameMessage in from sheet in sheets
let renamed = sheet.LookupParameter("Sheet Name")?.Set("TEST")
select $"Renamed: {sheet.Title}, Status: {renamed}")
{
ui.Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
ui.TbDebug.Text += "\n" + (DateTime.Now).ToLongTimeString() + "\t" + renameMessage);
}
t.Commit();
t.Dispose();
}
// invoke the UI dispatcher to print the results to report completion
ui.Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
ui.TbDebug.Text += "\n" + (DateTime.Now).ToLongTimeString() + "\t" + "SHEETS HAVE BEEN RENAMED");
}
/// <summary>
/// Count the walls in the Revit Document, and print the count
/// on the main text box of the WPF window of this application.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ui">An instance of our UI class, which in this template is the main WPF
/// window of the application.</param>
/// <param name="doc">The Revit Document to count the walls of.</param>
public static void WallInfo(BridgeProUi ui, Document doc)
{
Task.Run(() =>
{
Util.LogThreadInfo("Wall Count Method");
// get all walls in the document
ICollection <Wall> walls = new FilteredElementCollector(doc)
.OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_Walls).WhereElementIsNotElementType()
.Select(p => (Wall)p).ToList();
// format the message to show the number of walls in the project
string message = $"There are {walls.Count} Walls in the project";
// invoke the UI dispatcher to print the results to the UI
ui.Dispatcher.Invoke(() =>
ui.TbDebug.Text += "\n" + (DateTime.Now).ToLongTimeString() + "\t" + message);
});
}
/// <summary>
/// Print the Title of the Revit Document on the main text box of the WPF window of this application.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ui">An instance of our UI class, which in this template is the main WPF
/// window of the application.</param>
/// <param name="doc">The Revit Document to print the Title of.</param>
public static void DocumentInfo(BridgeProUi ui, Document doc)
{
ui.Dispatcher.Invoke(() => ui.TbDebug.Text += "\n" + (DateTime.Now).ToLongTimeString() + "\t" + doc.Title);
}