Cant add RhinoCommon reference

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Has anybody else seen this?

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I get the same error
It might require rhino inside installed…

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I do have rhino.inside installed

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:thinking: no idea. I did not get the chance to play around with rhino inside that much

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@revitislife Is Rhino.Inside loaded when running this tool and adding a reference?

I just loaded RIR in Revit 2023, and ran this script successfully:

from pyrevit import clr, revit, DB
from pyrevit import script


clr.AddReference('RhinoCommon')
clr.AddReference('RhinoInside.Revit')


from Rhino import Geometry
from RhinoInside.Revit import Revit, Convert
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Aha - it wasn’t- is it possible to load and unload rhino.inside through the pyrevit script interface? more so to make the script foolproof

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Use this method and global variable (so you can check Rhino version later in your code as well if needed)

RHINO_VERSION = -1

ef ensure_rir():
     """Ensure Rhino.Inside.Revit is loaded"""
     global RHINO_VERSION
     try:
         # this line will cause RhinoCommon to load
         RHINO_VERSION = Rhino.RhinoApp.ExeVersion
     except:
         # lets inform user and end script if RhinoCommon failed to load
         forms.alert("Rhino.Inside.Revit is not available", exitscript=True)
"""

Rhino.Inside.Revit also has an check box in options window to automatically load Rhino when Revit is being loaded.
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I updated pyRevit’s RIR Test script to do the same

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Is it possible to force-start rhino inside through the pyrevit script - if it’s not already running?

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The code that I shared does exactly that. See “ensure_rir” function

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This is Awesome! Thanks @eirannejad

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I tried this solution but I still have the issue with RhinoCommon.Am I missing something? Please let me know