I have an issue with people linking and importing CAD files. Is it possible to get an alert when someone Imports a CAD file? The difference would be - Link requires me to go – manage - Manage Links - Cad Formats - Add. To import I would – Insert - Import CAD.
Not sure of the best way to go about getting this information.
In the discovery view I see that the action - Export File Data with a Command of “Transaction Successful” comes up when I Import a file. I also get the same data when I link a file…
Anyway it is getting late so I will look again in the morning…
@Gilly we do have an event in revit-log called File Imported but unfortunately at the moment it doesn’t distinguish between imports and links of CAD files. I didn’t realize that we weren’t doing that so I added that in and will make that available in the next release. It will look like this:
As you can see there will be a new boolean property file.isLinked so for imports it will be set to false.
That’s for the next release though. How about now. Through the revit-journal index you can see when someone imports by catching an event called Import as Link when Action is set to 0 which means that it was imported. If it was set to 1, it would have been linked.
@ksobon - FYI - It would be nice to be able to get the project information - It looks like we will get that when the update comes out. Moving to revit-log…
@Gilly yes, project info will be in the revit-log once the update is out. Next release we are shooting for before the end of the year. If that fails early next year.
Following up on this topic. We have now released version 1.1.40, which includes boolean file.IsLinked under revit-log. This can be used to create an alert for when a CAD file is imported into Revit as opposed to being linked.
Additionally, project information is now captured within revit-log.
