Outline

Public Class

Outline is a generic object that provides a bounding box/bounding outline. It supports operations to scale and transform. It also supports intersections and contains operations.

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
Autodesk.Revit.DB.Outline

Namespace: Autodesk.Revit.DB

Assembly: RevitAPI (in RevitAPI.dll) Version: 25.0.0.0 (25.0.0.0)

Syntax

public class Outline : IDisposable

The Outline type exposes the following members.

Constructors

Name

Description

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Public Method
Outline(Outline)

Constructs a new copy of the input Outline object.

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Public Method
Outline(XYZ, XYZ)

Constructor that uses a minimum and maximum XYZ point to initialize the outline.

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Properties

Name

Description

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Public Property

IsEmpty

Identifies if the outline represents an empty outline.

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Public Property
IsValidObject

Specifies whether the .NET object represents a valid Revit entity.

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Public Property

MaximumPoint

The maximum point of the bounding box.

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Public Property

MinimumPoint

The minimum point of the bounding box.

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Methods

Name

Description

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Public Method

AddPoint

Adds a point to the bounding box, expanding it if the point is outside the existing boundary.

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Public Method
Contains

Determine if this Outline contains the specified point to within a tolerance.

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Public Method
ContainsOtherOutline

Determine if this Outline contains another Outline to within tolerance.

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Public Method

Dispose

Releases all resources used by the Outline

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Public Method

Equals

Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.
(Inherited from Object)

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Public Method

GetDiagonalLength

Get the length of outline’s diagonal. If called on empty outline, 0. is returned

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Public Method

GetHashCode

Serves as the default hash function.
(Inherited from Object)

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Public Method

GetType

Gets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object)

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Public Method
Intersects

Determine if this Outline intersects the input Outline to within a specified tolerance.

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Public Method

IsScaleValid

Checks if given scale is valid. Should be greater than zero.

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Public Method

Scale

Scales the bounding box by given scale.

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Public Method

ToString

Returns a string that represents the current object.
(Inherited from Object)

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