How to pull the starting view for document using the Revit API

Question

How can I use the Revit API to get the Starting View for a Document? The equivalent way to access it using the user interface is seen below:

Answer 1

I know this is an older thread, but you can use the StartingViewSettings class like this:

StartingViewSettings.GetStartingViewSettings(doc).ViewId

Answer 2

I used the Revit Lookup tool and browsed through the database to find a class called StartingViewSettings with the property ViewId that will get me the ElementId of the starting view. My actual code for getting the view is below

FilteredElementCollector startingViewSettingsCollector = 
  new FilteredElementCollector(document);
startingViewSettingsCollector.OfClass(typeof(StartingViewSettings));

View startingView = null;

foreach(StartingViewSettings settings in startingViewSettingsCollector)
{
    startingView = (View)document.GetElement(settings.ViewId);
}