Get the bounding boxes of a Section Mark and the Corresponding Section View

This Revit Macro will find the bounding boxes of the section mark in a view, and the bounding box of the corresponding section view.

public void GetASectionBBox()

{

//find the bounding boxes of teh section mark and the section view

UIDocument uidoc = ActiveUIDocument;

Document doc = ActiveUIDocument.Document;

Autodesk.Revit.DB.View pView = ActiveUIDocument.Document.ActiveView;

Selection selection = uidoc.Selection;

ICollection<ElementId> selectedIds = uidoc.Selection.GetElementIds();

IList<Autodesk.Revit.DB.View> selected = new List<Autodesk.Revit.DB.View>();

foreach (ElementId id in selectedIds)

{

//TaskDialog.Show("Revit", "Start Loop"); //Made it this far

Element e = doc.GetElement(id);

//TaskDialog.Show("Made It", "Ready to start section location finding.");

BoundingBoxXYZ mybox = e.get_BoundingBox(pView);

//TaskDialog.Show(mybox.Min.ToString (), mybox.Max.ToString());

//TaskDialog.Show("Revit", e.Name.ToString()); //find the name of the section

//Parameter pr = e.LookupParameter ("Referenced View"); //works

string viewname = e.Name.ToString();

FilteredElementCollector collector = new FilteredElementCollector(doc);

collector.OfClass(typeof(ViewSection));

foreach (ViewSection current in collector)

{

if (current.Name == viewname)

{

//Transaction tx = new Transaction(doc);

//tx.Start( "Open Section" );

uidoc.ActiveView = current;

uidoc.RefreshActiveView();

break;

//tx.Commit();

} // end if

}// end foreach ViewSection

BoundingBoxXYZ mybox2 = e.get_BoundingBox(uidoc.ActiveView);

TaskDialog.Show("Limits Before and After", mybox.Min.ToString () + "\r\n" + mybox.Max.ToString() + "\r\n\r\n\r\n" + mybox2.Min.ToString() + "\r\n" + mybox2.Max.ToString () );

//TaskDialog.Show("Limits Before and After", PointString(mybox.Min) + "\r\n" + PointString(mybox.Max) + "\r\n" + Util.PointString(mybox2.Min) + "\r\n" + Util.PointString(mybox2.Max) );

}//end foreach Element ID

}