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ViewDrafting.Create

Description:
Creates a new ViewDrafting in the model.

public static ViewDrafting Create(
	Document document,
	ElementId viewFamilyTypeId
)

Public Shared Function Create ( 
	document As Document,
	viewFamilyTypeId As ElementId
) As ViewDrafting

public:
static ViewDrafting^ Create(
	Document^ document, 
	ElementId^ viewFamilyTypeId
)

static member Create : 
        document : Document * 
        viewFamilyTypeId : ElementId -> ViewDrafting

Document

document

The document in which the new drafting view will be created.
ElementId

viewFamilyTypeId

The id of the ViewFamilyType that should be assigned to the new drafting view.

Return Value ViewDrafting The newly created drafting view.

// For simplicity, we'll look what drafting view types are already available,
// and we'll use the first one we can find to create our new drafting view.
FilteredElementCollector collector = new FilteredElementCollector(document);
collector.OfClass(typeof(ViewFamilyType));
ViewFamilyType viewFamilyType = collector.Cast<ViewFamilyType>().First(vft => vft.ViewFamily == ViewFamily.Drafting);

// Create a new ViewDrafting instance
ViewDrafting view = ViewDrafting.Create(document, viewFamilyType.Id); 
view.Name = "MyViewDrafting";

// Set the CropBox
BoundingBoxXYZ boundingBox = new BoundingBoxXYZ();
boundingBox.Max = new XYZ(100, 100, 50);
boundingBox.Min = new XYZ(-100, -100, -50);
view.CropBox = boundingBox;

ArgumentException

viewFamilyTypeId is not a valid ViewFamilyType for a drafting view.
ArgumentNullException

A non-optional argument was null