*Rebars*

*Rebars*

MACRO FOR REBARS WORKFLOWS

CombineGroups.cs

public void CombineGroups(){
			
						UIDocument uidoc = this.ActiveUIDocument;
			Document doc = uidoc.Document;
			
			//ICollection<ElementId> selectedIds = uidoc.Selection.GetElementIds();
			
			ICollection<Element> selectedIds = new FilteredElementCollector(doc, doc.ActiveView.Id).OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_IOSModelGroups).WhereElementIsNotElementType().ToElements();
			
			var grouped = selectedIds.GroupBy(x => x.Name);
			
			//TaskDialog.Show("R", selectedIds.Count().ToString());
			
			//TaskDialog.Show("R", source.Name);
			
			GroupType gt = doc.GetElement(selectedIds.First().Id) as GroupType;
			
			string changed = "";
			
			using (Transaction t = new Transaction(doc,"Combine groups")){
				
				t.Start();
			
				foreach (var group in grouped) {
					
					if (group.Count()>1){
						
						Element source = doc.GetElement(group.First().Id);
					
						
						int counter = 0;
						
						foreach (var element in group) {
				
							element.ChangeTypeId(source.GetTypeId());
							counter ++;
							}
						
						changed += source.Name + " combined "+ counter + " times \n";
					}
				}
				

				
				t.Commit();
				
			}
			
			//GroupType gt = g.GroupType;
			
			TaskDialog.Show("T", changed);
			

			
		}

ExportGroupsSubElements.cs

public void ExportGroupsSubElements(){
			
			UIDocument uidoc = this.ActiveUIDocument;
			Document doc = uidoc.Document;
			
      // GET MODEL GROUPS IN THE ACTIVE VIEW
			ICollection<Element> groupsInView= new FilteredElementCollector(doc, doc.ActiveView.Id).OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_IOSModelGroups).WhereElementIsNotElementType().ToElements();
			
			
			  StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        //MAY NEED TO BE UPDATED TO YOUR LOCAL FILE PATH
        string outputFile = @"C:\Temp\RevitGroups.csv";
        
        string headers = "GROUP NAME, GROUP ID, GROUP ELEMENT IDS";
           
			  //FILTER REBARS AND STRUCTURAL CONNECTIONS ONLY			  
			  List<BuiltInCategory> builtInCats = new List<BuiltInCategory>(){BuiltInCategory.OST_Rebar, BuiltInCategory.OST_StructConnections};
			  
			  ElementMulticategoryFilter multiFilter = new ElementMulticategoryFilter(builtInCats);
			              
            
			foreach (var group in groupsInView) {
			
				Group currentGroup = group as Group;
				
				string eids = "";
				
				foreach (var element in currentGroup.GetDependentElements(multiFilter)) {
						
						string uniqueId = doc.GetElement(element).UniqueId;
					
						eids += uniqueId + " ";

				}
				
				
				if (eids != "")
					sb.AppendLine(group.Name + ',' + group.Id + ',' + eids);
			}
			
            
                File.WriteAllText(outputFile, headers + "\n");


                File.AppendAllText(outputFile, sb.ToString());
                
                //UNCOMMENT TO LAUNCH EXCEL
                //System.Diagnostics.Process process = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
                //process.StartInfo.FileName = outputFile;
                //process.Start();
		
                
			
		}

RegroupBars.cs

public void RegroupBars(){
			
			UIDocument uidoc = this.ActiveUIDocument;
			Document doc = uidoc.Document;
			
			//THIS FILE PATH SHOULD MATCH THE EXPORTED FILE FROM THE PREVIOUS MACRO
      string inputFile = @"C:\Temp\RevitGroups.csv";
			    
			           
        		var counts = new Dictionary<string, int>();

        				string errors = "Groups throwing errors: \n";
                using (Transaction t = new Transaction(doc, "Regroup Bars"))
                {
                    t.Start();

                    using (TextFieldParser parser = new TextFieldParser(inputFile))
                    {
                        parser.TextFieldType = FieldType.Delimited;
                        parser.SetDelimiters(",");

                        
                        List<string> parameters = parser.ReadLine().Split(',').ToList();

                        while (!parser.EndOfData)
                        {
                            var line = parser.ReadLine();

                            var values = line.Split(',').ToList();
                            
                            string groupName = values[0];
                            
                            var eids = values[2].Split(' ');
                            
                            //TaskDialog.Show("R", eids.Count().ToString());
                            
                            List<ElementId> explodedIds = new List<ElementId>();
                            
                            foreach (var element in eids) {
                            	try{
                            		explodedIds.Add(doc.GetElement(element).Id);
                            	}
                            	catch{}
                            }
                            
                            //TaskDialog.Show("R", explodedIds.Count().ToString());
                            
                            try{
	                            Group regroup = doc.Create.NewGroup(explodedIds);
	                            regroup.GroupType.Name = groupName;                            	
                            }
                            catch{
                            	errors += groupName+"\n";
                            	//throw new SystemException("Error "+ groupName);
                            }
                            
                            //TaskDialog.Show("R", groupName);


                        }
                    }
                    
                    
                    t.Commit();
                    
                    TaskDialog.Show("R", errors);
                    
                    
                    
                    
                }
                
                
			
		}