How to Retrieve Forge Viewer objectTree? - autodesk-forge

Question

My goal is to highlight a room by adding new geometry to the viewer based on lines I have created in revit like they do here Link
but i can not figure out how to access those lines ids.
I know what they are in revit (element_id) but not how they are mapped as dbid.
Following this Blog Post
I want to access the objectTree in my extension to find out, but it always comes back as undefined.
var tree;
//old way - viewer is your viewer object - undefined
viewer.getObjectTree(function (objTree) {
tree = objTree;
});
//2.5 - undefined
var instanceTree = viewer.model.getData().instanceTree;
var rootId = this.rootId = instanceTree.getRootId();
//- undefined
var objectTree = viewer.getObjectTree();
Can anyone tell me if its still works for them I am using the v2 of the API for the rvt conversion to svf and 2.9 of the viewer3D.js
note I can see a list of dbid if I call this
var model = viewer.impl.model;
var data = model.getData();
var fragId2dbIdArray = data.fragments.fragId2dbId ;
but have no way of mapping back to the Revit element_id

Answer 1

As of version 2.9 this is still working. Here's my console:
Here's a couple of things you can try:
Is viewer undefined? Are you in the correct scope when grabbing the viewer?
The document have to be loaded before you can grab the instance tree. When the document is loaded, an event called Autodesk.Viewing.GEOMETRY_LOADED_EVENT will be fired, then you can start manipulating the instance tree.
Simply do this:
viewer.addEventListener(Autodesk.Viewing.GEOMETRY_LOADED_EVENT, function () {
var instanceTree = viewer.model.getData().instanceTree;
});
For more structured code, follow this guide to add an extension.
There's a more detailed blog post on which event to listen for. It's still using the old way to get instance tree, though.

Answer 2

Shiya Luo was correct the viewer had not yet finished loading the geometry
in my extentions Load function I added two event listeners and made sure they both fired before trying to access the instanceTree
viewer.addEventListener(Autodesk.Viewing.GEOMETRY_LOADED_EVENT, function () {
finishedGEOMETRY_LOADED_EVENT = true;
if(finishedGEOMETRY_LOADED_EVENT && finishedOBJECT_TREE_CREATED_EVENT ){
afterModelLoadEvents(viewer);
}
});
viewer.addEventListener(Autodesk.Viewing.OBJECT_TREE_CREATED_EVENT, function () {
finishedOBJECT_TREE_CREATED_EVENT = true;
if(finishedGEOMETRY_LOADED_EVENT && finishedOBJECT_TREE_CREATED_EVENT ){
afterModelLoadEvents(viewer);
}
});