Revit .NET Creations API: Create Metal Clad Column

We created a variety of Revit elements such as walls, windows, doors, openings, floors, roofs, and levels with different shapes such as rectangular and circular if possible programmatically using Revit .NET API and C# before.

We created an architectural rectangular column successfully, arranged some such columns along a circle/arc and in a rectangular array before. We also managed to load a column family dynamically into the current document previously. In this post, let’s create a Metal Clad Column and load its type if not yet into the current document before the creation.

public static Family LoadColumnFamily(Document doc, string name)
{
    string libPath = doc.Application.GetLibraryPaths()["Imperial Library"];
    string path = Path.Combine(libPath, @"Columns\" + name + ".rfa");
    Family family;
    doc.LoadFamily(path, out family);

    return family;
}

public static FamilyInstance InsertMetalCladColumn(Document doc, XYZ location, Level topLevel, double topOffset, Level baseLevel, double baseOffset)
{
    Family family = ColumnCreation.FindColumnFamilies(doc).FirstOrDefault(e => e.Name == "Metal Clad Column");
    if (family == null )
        family = LoadColumnFamily(doc, "Metal Clad Column");

    FamilySymbol symbol = ColumnCreation.GetFirstSymbol(family);
    return InsertColumn(doc, symbol, location, topLevel, topOffset, baseLevel, baseOffset);
}

public static void TestCreateMetalCladColumn(Document doc, XYZ location)
{
    FamilySymbol symbol = ColumnCreation.GetFirstSymbol(ColumnCreation.FindColumnFamilies(doc).FirstOrDefault());
    IOrderedEnumerable<Level> levels = FindAndSortLevels(doc);
    Level toplevel = levels.Last();
    Level baseLevel = levels.ElementAt(levels.Count() - 2);
    InsertMetalCladColumn(doc, location, toplevel, -2.0, baseLevel, 2.0);
}

Here is the sample caller code.

ColumnCreation.TestCreateMetalCladColumn(CachedDoc, new XYZ(50, 0, 0));

Here is how it looks like in Revit.
 

 

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