Aggregate parameter values for selected elements

[kaitpw]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

I was wondering if there was existing infrastructure or a good way to extend revit lookup.

I’ve just been made an in house revit developer and I’m being asked by our designers to make addins to do very simple snoopy things. Like for example getting the total length of selected pipes, getting total length of a certain duct system in the whole project, counting the number of mechanical equipment instances, etc.

Making commands for these is not hard but I just don’t like the idea of adding so many random commands to my ribbon, regardless of how their organized.

Then I had the idea. It just makes a lot of sense to me that you could access this info from revitlookup.

I personally have no idea what this would look like. Im imagining another window or pane that queries the data in revit lookup. It’d b kind of like RevitLookup for RevitLookup. Maybe I use windows automation to extract the data then query it myself? Idk. If you have any ideas I’d love to hear it.

Thanks!

Scenario when this would be used?

Developers: when they want to add some additional functionality on top of snooped things

Users: when they want some specific info on top of element info. Like aggregating the values of all of a certain parameter

[kaitpw]

To be clear this is not so much a feature request as a request for guidance. A feature for this would be awesome though. Sorry for my rambling.