diff --git a/Revit_Core_Engine/Objects/Active2dViewVisibilityContext.cs b/Revit_Core_Engine/Objects/Active2dViewVisibilityContext.cs
index 5ddab5a87..2b532815c 100644
--- a/Revit_Core_Engine/Objects/Active2dViewVisibilityContext.cs
+++ b/Revit_Core_Engine/Objects/Active2dViewVisibilityContext.cs
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 using Autodesk.Revit.DB;
 using System.ComponentModel;
 
+#if (!REVIT2018 && !REVIT2019)
 namespace BH.Revit.Engine.Core
 {
     [Description("Class used to extract elements visible in the active view of the host document if that view is of 2d type. See " + nameof(Query.ElementIdsByVisibleInActiveView) + " for usage example.")]
@@ -105,3 +106,4 @@ public void OnText(TextNode node)
         /***************************************************/
     }
 }
+#endif
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Revit_Core_Engine/Query/ElementIds/ElementIdsByVisibleInActiveView.cs b/Revit_Core_Engine/Query/ElementIds/ElementIdsByVisibleInActiveView.cs
index 0df9d5726..0496930ff 100644
--- a/Revit_Core_Engine/Query/ElementIds/ElementIdsByVisibleInActiveView.cs
+++ b/Revit_Core_Engine/Query/ElementIds/ElementIdsByVisibleInActiveView.cs
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 
 using Autodesk.Revit.DB;
 using BH.oM.Base.Attributes;
-using System;
 using System.Collections.Generic;
 using System.ComponentModel;
 
@@ -49,13 +48,23 @@ public static IEnumerable<ElementId> ElementIdsByVisibleInActiveView(this Docume
             if (hostDocument.ActiveView is View3D)
                 context = new ActiveViewVisibilityContext(hostDocument, document);
             else
+            {
+#if (REVIT2018 || REVIT2019)
+                BH.Engine.Base.Compute.RecordError($"Querying visible elements from the active view failed because only 3d views are supported in Revit 2019 or older. In later versions also 2d views can be queried.");
+                return null;
+#else
                 context = new Active2dViewVisibilityContext(hostDocument, document);
+#endif
+            }
 
             CustomExporter exporter = new CustomExporter(hostDocument, context);
             exporter.IncludeGeometricObjects = false;
-            exporter.Export2DIncludingAnnotationObjects = true;
             exporter.ShouldStopOnError = false;
 
+#if (!REVIT2018 && !REVIT2019)
+            exporter.Export2DIncludingAnnotationObjects = true;
+#endif
+
             try
             {
                 exporter.Export(new List<ElementId> { hostDocument.ActiveView.Id });
@@ -79,7 +88,5 @@ public static IEnumerable<ElementId> ElementIdsByVisibleInActiveView(this Docume
         }
 
         /***************************************************/
-    }
-
-   
+    }   
 }