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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Revit- Create Worksets with Dynamo

This discussion was over at the DynamoBIM forums regarding workset creation.
http://dynamobim.com/forums/topic/creating-a-new-workset/
Andreas Dieckmann was kind enough to let us know that this has been possible since the Revit R2 release.

This prompted me to do some searching and I found this post from the building coder.
http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/2015/02/revit-2015-r2-and-the-read-write-workset-api.html
And then I came up with this little gem. :)
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It will take both a list and a single name (as a string) and create those worksets for you in a workshared model.
See the video below for it in action and get it on the package manager now. (Another note, this will only work for Revit 2015 and R2 update and beyond)
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18 comments:

  1. danielgijsbersJune 18, 2015 at 8:04 AM

    Hi, very nice to post this. I right away added a small feature of reading the worksets names from excel. see:http://danielgijsbers.blogspot.nl/2015/06/automate-creation-of-worksets.html
    With credits for your nice work!

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  2. JohnPJune 18, 2015 at 10:14 AM

    Daniel, Great work! The excel connectivity was the idea and you got it! Great for standard workset naming!

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  3. ekkonapJune 20, 2015 at 11:21 PM

    Get linked file name, create workset, set workset for linked file instance?

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  4. JohnPJune 22, 2015 at 7:00 AM

    ekkonap- there's a way to do that.
    http://sixtysecondrevit.blogspot.com/2015/06/more-worksetcreate-fun-with-dynamobim.html

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  5. danielgijsbersJune 22, 2015 at 7:53 AM

    @ekkonap, you would probably also want to set the type workset for the linked file.

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  6. JohnPJune 22, 2015 at 8:39 AM

    And clockwork has a node for that :-)

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  7. Andrew S.August 18, 2015 at 6:09 AM

    I am interested in this node. Is this custom or ootb?

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  8. JohnPAugust 18, 2015 at 6:40 AM

    It's a custom node I made in package Rhythm.

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  9. Andrew S.September 28, 2015 at 9:08 AM

    Need help. I have downloaded Rhythm and have Revit and Dynamo up to date. I am getting a null from my Workset.Create with the same example John has. Any thoughts? I have tried having the dialog open and closed. Also run on auto and manual.

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  10. JohnPSeptember 29, 2015 at 1:12 PM

    Are you at least Revit 2015 R2 Update (for subscription) or Revit 2016?

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  11. Andrew S.September 29, 2015 at 1:26 PM

    John, we are using 2015 with sp8.

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  12. JohnPSeptember 29, 2015 at 5:23 PM

    The build number will be specific. Let me check mine in the morning and see. The work set create Api opened up with the mid year release of revit 2015 last year. Called revit 2015 release 2. It is only for subscription customers. Have you also enabled work sharing before attempting to run the script?

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  13. JohnPSeptember 29, 2015 at 5:24 PM

    It also may be easier to email me directly at sixtysecondrevit@gmail.com

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  14. JohnPSeptember 30, 2015 at 12:18 PM

    This workflow is currently working for me with this Update. Screenshot

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  15. HirangaOctober 6, 2015 at 12:19 AM

    I've been after something like this for a while! Perfect! Only problem is, i can't get it to work..

    My setup is Revit 2015, Build: 20150702_1515(x64)
    Update Release 9

    Dynamo version: 0.8.2.2392

    Is this compatible? Should it have worked?

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  16. JohnPOctober 6, 2015 at 6:48 AM

    That build appears to not include the R2 release from about this time last year. http://goo.gl/xz9KYj

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  17. HirangaOctober 7, 2015 at 3:48 PM

    Thanks JohnP - you've prompted me in the right direction - problem now solved! I had to uninstall Revit and reinstall because I already had UR9 installed.

    For anyone that comes across the same issue, I reinstalled Revit 2015, then installed the R2 patch, then installed the UR9 for R2 file, and the build number came up as it should. All Dynamo packages are operational! [woohoo]

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  18. JohnPOctober 7, 2015 at 5:11 PM

    Glad to hear it! Enjoy!

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