I am trying to use a filter to show/hide a certain element on the view. The family is from catogary GenericModel. I use the same code snippet that on the help on the autodesk site it works fine in its original state (catogary is walls) but when I changed it to GenericModel I got the following error: "One of the given rules refers to a parameter that does not apply to this filter's categories." I suspect that something wrong with the typeOf(FamilyInstance). The original code on Autodesk site is:
http://help.autodesk.com/view/RVT/2014/ENU/?guid=GUID-B6FB80F2-7A17-4242-9E95-D6056090E85B
and here is my code
Transaction trans = new Transaction(doc);
trans.Start("Hide_or_Unhide");
//
List<ElementId> categories = new List<ElementId>();
categories.Add(new ElementId(BuiltInCategory.OST_GenericModel));
ParameterFilterElement parameterFilterElement = ParameterFilterElement.Create(doc, "elementNo = 102", categories);
FilteredElementCollector parameterCollector = new FilteredElementCollector(doc);
Parameter parameter = parameterCollector.OfClass(typeof(FamilyInstance)).FirstElement().get_Parameter("elementNo");
List<FilterRule> filterRules = new List<FilterRule>();
filterRules.Add(ParameterFilterRuleFactory.CreateEqualsRule(parameter.Id, 102));
try
{
parameterFilterElement.SetRules(filterRules);
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
TaskDialog.Show("", ex.Message);
}
OverrideGraphicSettings filterSettings = new OverrideGraphicSettings();
// outline walls in red
filterSettings.SetProjectionLineColor(new Autodesk.Revit.DB.Color(255, 0, 0));
Autodesk.Revit.DB.View curView = doc.ActiveView;
curView.SetFilterOverrides(parameterFilterElement.Id, filterSettings);
trans.Commit();