Revit_SwitchToWorkspaceShortcut

By: InkRF (InkRF.net)

Abstract

This repo is to enable the use of a keyboard shortcut to switch the active workset in Autodesk Revit to the one that is programmed.

Built using Visual Studio 2022 & .NET 4.8 Framework

Note that worksharing must be enabled for workets to be used/created. This step must be done manually prior to using the add-in

Additionally, note this code is a relativly "quick and dirty" solution to a problem that needed solving to make switching worksets more efficant. More work can (and should) be done to make it a bit more robust, and to have additional functionality.

Revit API

When building this in Visual Studio, make sure that the RevitAPI and REVITAPIUI are added to the project references, additional information on how to do this may be found here

AddIn Manifest

Note that an additional file must be added to the Revit addin folder to add the plugin to be used in revit,

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RevitAddIns>
 <AddIn Type="Command">
       <Name>Revit_SwitchToWorkspaceShortcut</Name>
       <FullClassName>Revit_SwitchToWorkspaceShortcut.Class1</FullClassName>
       <Text>Switch workset</Text>
       <Description>Switches to (and/or creates) the programmed workset</Description>
       <VisibilityMode>AlwaysVisible</VisibilityMode>
       <Assembly>C:\...\bin\Release\Revit_SwitchToWorkspaceShortcut.dll</Assembly>
       <AddInId>502fe383-2648-4e98-adf8-5e6047f9dc35</AddInId>
    <VendorId>InkRF_Labs</VendorId>
    <VendorDescription>InkRF, www.InkRF.net</VendorDescription>
 </AddIn>
</RevitAddIns>

This file should be saved to the following subfolder (if using Windows 10): C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Revit\Addins\20xx\ Note that \ProgramData\ is hidden by default on Windows 10