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BH.oM.Adapters.Revit.Elements.DraftingInstance

A generic wrapper BHoM type corresponding to any view-specific Revit element (drafting elements e.g. lines and hatches, tags, text notes etc.).

Class structure

Implemented interfaces and base types

The DraftingInstance is inheriting from the following base type(s) and implements the following interfaces:

Properties

Defining properties

The following properties are defined on the class

Name Type Description Quantity
Properties InstanceProperties Information about Revit family type or graphic type of the instance. -
Location IGeometry Location of the instance in three dimensional space. -
Orientation Basis Orientation of the instance in 2 dimensional space (only X and Y vectors are relevant). Applicable only to point-based DraftingInstances. If null, a default orientation will be applied. -
ViewName string Name of Revit view to which the instance belongs. -

Inherited properties

The following properties are inherited from the base class of the object

Name Type Description Quantity
BHoM_Guid Guid - -
Name string - -
Fragments FragmentSet - -
Tags HashSet<string> - -
CustomData Dictionary<string, object> - -

Code and Schema

C# implementation

C#
public class DraftingInstance : BH.oM.Base.BHoMObject, BH.oM.Base.IBHoMObject, BH.oM.Base.IObject, BH.oM.Adapters.Revit.Elements.IInstance

Assembly: Revit_oM.dll

The C# class definition is available on github:

All history and changes of the class can be found by inspection the history.

JSON Schema implementation

The object is defined as a JSON schema. You can validate a JSON instance against this schema by reference. To do this, use the schema reference below in a validator like this one.

JSON Schema
{
 "$ref" : "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BHoM/BHoM_JSONSchema/develop/Revit_oM/Elements/DraftingInstance.json"
}

The JSON Schema is available on github here: