From the course: Dynamo for Revit Project Setup
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Look up Revit views by their names - Dynamo Studio Tutorial
From the course: Dynamo for Revit Project Setup
Look up Revit views by their names
- [Narrator] In the last video, we plugged data into three out of the four inputs on the sheet, by name, number, title block, and view node. Now, let's prepare the data for the last input, which is the Revit view that we'd like to place on each of the sheets that the node is going to create. We've already given some thought to which view should be placed on each sheet. If a sheet is supposed to have a specific view, that view's name is listed in the last column of data in Excel, which we've brought into Dynamo here. Now, remember to be aware of the type of data that you're working with. We're not looking at a list of Revit views here. We're looking at a list of strings. These are just text, reporting the name of a view that we'd like to place. The challenge we're faced here is very similar to what we accomplished in the last video, use this list of strings to look up the Revit view object with the same name. Now, unfortunately, it's not an identical problem. We can't reuse the family…
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