I would like to know how could I restore a SectionBox from Fe back to Revit.

In Fe Viwer, I have a SectionBox defined by its 6 planes. As far as I know, for clipping in a Revit 3d view we need to define a BoudingBox (not planes). Is that correct ?

I could manage in the other way around like this :

private List<double[]> GetCutPlanes(BoundingBoxXYZ bbox)
    {
        List<double[]> planesList = new List<double[]>();
        Autodesk.Revit.DB.Transform t = bbox.Transform;
        XYZ min = bbox.Min;
        XYZ max = bbox.Max;

        // Conversion factor from feet to meters
        const double conversionFactor = 0.3048;

        // Local helper function to create a plane in the [nx, ny, nz, d] format.
        double[] CreatePlane(XYZ normal, XYZ point)
        {
            // Transform the point and the normal using the bounding box's transform.
            XYZ pt = t.OfPoint(point);
            XYZ n = normal;

            double d = -(n.X * pt.X + n.Y * pt.Y + n.Z * pt.Z) * conversionFactor;

            return new double[] { -normal.X, -normal.Y, -normal.Z, d };
        }

        // Corrected reference points for each plane
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(-1, 0, 0), new XYZ(min.X, min.Y, min.Z))); // X-min
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(1, 0, 0), new XYZ(max.X, min.Y, min.Z)));  // X-max
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(0, -1, 0), new XYZ(min.X, min.Y, max.Z))); // Y-min
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(0, 1, 0), new XYZ(min.X, max.Y, max.Z)));  // Y-max 
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(0, 0, -1), new XYZ(min.X, min.Y, min.Z))); // Z-min
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(0, 0, 1), new XYZ(min.X, min.Y, max.Z)));  // Z-max

        return planesList;
    }

How could I go from Fe to Revit ?

I would like to know how could I restore a SectionBox from Fe back to Revit.

In Fe Viwer, I have a SectionBox defined by its 6 planes. As far as I know, for clipping in a Revit 3d view we need to define a BoudingBox (not planes). Is that correct ?

I could manage in the other way around like this :

private List<double[]> GetCutPlanes(BoundingBoxXYZ bbox)
    {
        List<double[]> planesList = new List<double[]>();
        Autodesk.Revit.DB.Transform t = bbox.Transform;
        XYZ min = bbox.Min;
        XYZ max = bbox.Max;

        // Conversion factor from feet to meters
        const double conversionFactor = 0.3048;

        // Local helper function to create a plane in the [nx, ny, nz, d] format.
        double[] CreatePlane(XYZ normal, XYZ point)
        {
            // Transform the point and the normal using the bounding box's transform.
            XYZ pt = t.OfPoint(point);
            XYZ n = normal;

            double d = -(n.X * pt.X + n.Y * pt.Y + n.Z * pt.Z) * conversionFactor;

            return new double[] { -normal.X, -normal.Y, -normal.Z, d };
        }

        // Corrected reference points for each plane
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(-1, 0, 0), new XYZ(min.X, min.Y, min.Z))); // X-min
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(1, 0, 0), new XYZ(max.X, min.Y, min.Z)));  // X-max
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(0, -1, 0), new XYZ(min.X, min.Y, max.Z))); // Y-min
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(0, 1, 0), new XYZ(min.X, max.Y, max.Z)));  // Y-max 
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(0, 0, -1), new XYZ(min.X, min.Y, min.Z))); // Z-min
        planesList.Add(CreatePlane(new XYZ(0, 0, 1), new XYZ(min.X, min.Y, max.Z)));  // Z-max

        return planesList;
    }

How could I go from Fe to Revit ?

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We can convert the viewer's section box to a Revit one like the following.

const cutPlanes = this.viewer.getCutPlanes();

if (cutPlanes.length <= 6) return;

let planes = cutPlanes.map(p => new THREE.Plane().setComponents(p.x, p.y, p.z, p.w))
let frustum = new THREE.Frustum(
    planes[3],
    planes[1],
    planes[0],
    planes[4],
    planes[5],
    planes[2]
);

let pts = this.getCorners(frustum);
let boundingBox = new THREE.Box3().setFromPoints(pts); //!<<< Bounding box of the viwer section box

// Do necessary coordinate mapping here. e.g., to Revit space apply the `model.getInverseModelToViewerTransform()` to `boundingBox.max` and `boundingBox.min`

let model = viewer.getAllModels()[0];
let boundingBoxInRevitSpace = boundingBoxapplyMatrix4 (model.getInverseModelToViewerTransform());

let boundingBoxStringInRevitSpace = JSON.stringfy(boundingBoxInRevitSpace);

In Revit, we set bounding box like this way

// Suppose we can a custom class for mapping BoundingBox from APS Viewer called ApsBoundingBox

var boundingBox = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<ApsBoundingBox>(boundingBoxStringInRevitSpace);

view3D.SetSectionBox(new BoundingBoxXYZ() {
  Max = new XYZ(boundingBox.Max.X, boundingBox.Max.Y, boundingBox.Max.Z), 
  Min = new XYZ(boundingBox.Min.X, boundingBox.Min.Y, boundingBox.Min.Z) 
});

Related readings:

• https://stackoverflow/a/72742975/7745569

• https://stackoverflow/a/72271048/7745569

I have not looked into this specifically from the APS side of things, but The Building Coder shares quite a few posts on setting up section boxes:

• Set View Section Box to Match Scope Box
• Set View Section Box to Match Scope Box for Revit 2014
• Setting 3D Section Box to Selected Elements' Extents
• Set View Crop to Section Box