DirectObjLoader for Revit 2017

Here is a last quick Sunday morning post before I head off on vacation, prompted by truevis' comment on the DirectObjLoader GitHub issue #2:

Question

What do we have to change to get this to work in Revit 2017? Seems there are changes in DirectShape.CreateElement and TessellatedShapeBuilderResult.

Answer

I migrated the sample to Revit 2017 for you.

Here is what I did:

• Updated the Revit API references
• Incremented the .NET framework from 4.5 to 4.5.2
• Reinstalled the FileFormatWavefront NuGet package
• Recompiled

That produced two warnings:

• Error CS1501 No overload for method 'Build' takes 3 arguments DirectObjLoader C:\a\vs\DirectObjLoader\DirectObjLoader\Command.cs 126 Active
• Warning CS0618 'DirectShape.CreateElement(Document, ElementId, string, string)' is obsolete: 'This function will be obsolete in Revit 2017. Use DirectShape.CreateElement(Document, ElementId) instead. Use DirectShape.ApplicationId, DirectShape.ApplicationDataId properties to set application id and application data id.' DirectObjLoader C:\a\vs\DirectObjLoader\DirectObjLoader\Command.cs 131 Active

The warning is completely self-explanatory and trivial.

To fix it, just do what the man says.

The error is caused by the changes described in What's New in the Revit 2017 API:

Furthermore, the build result is now accessible through GetBuildResult instead of being returned by the Build method.

I published a new release 2017.0.0.0 including the corresponding changes.

You can compare the changes to see exactly what I did.

Here is the code for Revit 2017:

The flat migration works fine, and this image was produced as a result from a 6 MB OBJ apartment model: