Access Entire List of Nested Families in Family Instance

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Does anyone happen to know if it possible to access the entire list of potential nested families which are selected with an instance parameter? I can grab the active one, but I don’t know how to find the whole list. I am trying to do so without the nested families being set to shared if at all possible.

I am creating a graph which matches a view on a sheet with a corresponding bar scale in the titleblock family. Due to a large number of families required, I would prefer to avoid using shared families.

I have tried “FamilyInstance.SubComponents” without luck.

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Did you ever figure this one out? I have a very similar problem and stuck on the same thing

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Hi @JoziB

Could you drop TitleBlock rfa here?

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I no longer work where this problem was encountered, so I cannot verify what the absolute final decision was. However, if I remember correctly, we bit the bullet and made the nested family shared so that they could be identified within the project file.

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It a little off topic, but this post shows Python code that can get families / types that are nested.

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@Kulkul I’m only seeing your response here now! I started a thread here: Set Title Sheet Nested Label Parameter for Generic Annotation

For the most part I have everything figured out except the final porting of writing the parameter.

With regards to getting nested families, I used a node to open each family and retrieve the nested items.

I have it in this script below, top left a few nodes in on the script

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