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- [Narrator] The Revit API provides many different ways to create, edit, and populate elements with data, some of which we have explored so far on this course. Now let's have a look at different ways that we can display and annotate elements by automatically creating views, tagging elements, and creating sheets. There are several different types of view elements in the Revit API, all that inherit from the View class. These are the View3d, ViewDrafting, ViewPlan, ViewSection, and ViewSheet class. You might be able to guess that these classes are used to create 3D views, drafting, plan, section, and sheet views respectively. There are a couple different ways to differentiate views other than their class type. Views will also have a ViewType property which returns a type of enumeration. This describes the type of view that it is. For example, FloorPlan, Elevation, or Detail. Or we can differentiate by the view's view family type, which is the family type used to create the view. For…

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