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Show in Revit

Sends the selected elements to Revit, where the Playground Link button for pyRevit selects and zooms to them.

Status

The public ask

No public source is on record for this tool.

Installs with

Show in Revit sits in a stack, so installing it also installs:

• Show from Revit

Events it listens to

None. It runs only when you click it.

Files

Paths are relative to the Playground.extension folder.

• Coordinate.tab/Clash_Results.panel/Revit_Link.stack/Show_in_Revit.pushbutton/bundle.yaml
• Coordinate.tab/Clash_Results.panel/Revit_Link.stack/Show_in_Revit.pushbutton/icon.dark.png
• Coordinate.tab/Clash_Results.panel/Revit_Link.stack/Show_in_Revit.pushbutton/icon.png
• Coordinate.tab/Clash_Results.panel/Revit_Link.stack/Show_in_Revit.pushbutton/icon.small.dark.png
• Coordinate.tab/Clash_Results.panel/Revit_Link.stack/Show_in_Revit.pushbutton/icon.small.png
• Coordinate.tab/Clash_Results.panel/Revit_Link.stack/Show_in_Revit.pushbutton/script.py

Install

1. Only this tool. In Navisworks, click pyNavis > Playground, search for Show in Revit, tick it and click Install.
2. The whole extension. Download Playground.extension.zip, unzip it, put the Playground.extension folder in %APPDATA%\pyNavis\extensions\, and click pyNavis > Reload. Show in Revit is on the Coordinate tab, Clash Results panel.

You need pyNavis 1.3.0 or later.

Source

The tool's own files, word for word as published in pynavis/Playground. Paths are relative to the Playground.extension folder.

script.py

The script that runs on a click.

"""Sends the selected elements to Revit, where the Playground Link button for pyRevit selects them."""
from pynavis import toast

from namo import revitlink
from namo import clashset_common as common


def run():
    elements, skipped = revitlink.selected_elements()
    if not elements:
        if skipped:
            toast.info('The selection has no Revit elements',
                       'Select elements from models exported from Revit, then click again.')
        else:
            toast.info('Nothing selected', 'Select the elements to show in Revit, then click again.')
        return
    try:
        revitlink.send_to_revit(elements)
    except (IOError, OSError) as error:
        toast.error('Could not write the link file', str(error))
        return
    files = sorted(set(e['file'] for e in elements if e['file']))
    detail = 'In Revit, open %s and click Playground > Show from Navisworks.' % (
        revitlink.short_list(files, 2) if files else 'the model')
    if skipped:
        detail = '%s without Revit IDs left out. %s' % (common.plural(skipped, 'item'), detail)
    toast.success('Sent %s to Revit' % common.plural(len(elements), 'element'), detail)


run()

Library modules this tool uses

From the shared namo library, which installs with every tool. Each name opens the module on GitHub.

• namo.clashset_commonSmall things every Clash Setup and Clash Results tool shares.
• namo.revitlinkRevit Link: hand elements between Navisworks and Revit through two small JSON files.

bundle.yaml

The bundle contract: the keys pyNavis reads for this tool.

title: Show in Revit
tooltip: Sends the selected elements to Revit, where the Playground Link button for pyRevit selects and zooms to them.
context: selection