如何用API从风管类型获取风管类型的截面形状

刚刚在我们ADN的全球博客里发布了一篇这篇文章。在这里给出同一个链接。

现在Revit没有开放直接可用的API从DuctType来获取管道类型的形状。本文给出了一个替代解决办法来获取。
思路是这样的： 从风管类型获取与风管类型关联的弯头族类型，然后打开这个弯头族，在从打开的族文档中获取连接件DuctConnector的截面形状。
这个事可以工作的。但是效率不是很高，因为需要打开族的文档（EditFamily），对于需要连读取多个风管类型的界面形状，需要一些等待的时间。


原文请参见：
http://adndevblog.typepad.com/aec/2013/03/how-to-get-the-duct-section-shape-for-duct-type-object.html


实现代码如下：

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;


using  Autodesk.Revit .DB;
using Autodesk.Revit.UI;
using Autodesk.Revit .ApplicationServices;
using Autodesk.Revit.Attributes ;
using Autodesk.Revit.DB.Mechanical;


using Autodesk.Revit.UI.Selection;




  [TransactionAttribute(TransactionMode.Manual)]
public class RevitCommand : IExternalCommand
{
    public Result Execute(
      ExternalCommandData commandData, 
      ref string messages, 
      ElementSet elements)
    {


      UIApplication app = commandData.Application;
      Document doc = app.ActiveUIDocument.Document;


      Selection sel = app.ActiveUIDocument.Selection;
      Reference ref1 = sel.PickObject(
        ObjectType.Element, "please pick a duct");
      Duct duct = doc.GetElement(ref1) as Duct;
      if(duct == null)
      {
        messages = "You didn't select a duct";
        return Result.Failed;
      }
      DuctType ductType = duct.DuctType;


      //Get the duct type's elbow parameter value.
      Parameter param = ductType.get_Parameter(
        BuiltInParameter.RBS_CURVETYPE_DEFAULT_ELBOW_PARAM);


      FamilySymbol symbol = 
        doc.get_Element(param.AsElementId()) as FamilySymbol;
      Family family = symbol.Family;
      Document familyDoc = doc.EditFamily(family);


      FilteredElementCollector collector = 
        new FilteredElementCollector(familyDoc);
      collector.OfClass(typeof(ConnectorElement));


      Element firstConnector = collector.FirstElement();
      DuctConnector connector = firstConnector as DuctConnector;
      TaskDialog.Show("Duct Section Shape", connector.Shape.ToString());
      familyDoc.Close(false);


     return Result.Succeeded ;
    }
}