I noticed that there’s a node for All Elements of Category in View. [image] This is nice because pulling all of the elements in a view without a category filter can be very time consuming - depending on how much stuff is actually visible. But what if there was still a lot of elements in a specif…

The Genius Loci package was updated with some improvments. Good graph optimization !

This previous post might prove to be useful as a reference, it’s interesting to me now! [image] Collecting all elements of family types in active view Developers I’m trying to get all instances of specific parking family types in the active view in Python. My code below re…

I noticed that one as well. I tried editing the script to allow for a view plug-in, but I am not yet experienced enough with python to get it to work.

Hi Daniel, I am not at my computer at the moment so I can’t try this out right now, will do tomorrow. But I think you could get all elements of family type in the active project, and use the element owner view (clockwork)node to find what views the elements are in. Next step would be to match t…

Thanks @Garbage_Collector . Right now I use filtering to get all elements of a specific family type after using the node that gets All Elements of Category in View. This method is best one i know of so far that takes the least processing time. However, I am usually trying to get these elements from …

But can’t you get all elements of type, and then filter that list by views? That would be faster than getting all elements of category, right?

I ment like this: This way, you only get the specific family type and not the whole category. The Document.Active view is from Spring nodes, All Elements of Family type + and Element ownerview are from clockwork [image]

Hi, I updated the SelectByCategoryAndView node. I need to find a better name for this node now. [ByViewAndFamilyType]

Wow. A node that pulls across specific views for a category, element type or family type. I guess that is starting to sound long. SelectByItemAndView? Or maybe SelectByAnythingAndView - that might get too encompassing though. Since many may be inclined to use ootb for categories, SelectByTypeandVi…

Is it available for download? Looks like the last update is on November 8th.

I thought I’d give this a shot. It looks like the Element.OwnerView node from Clockwork is limited to specific elements even if they are visible in views. It gets nulls for every item on the list. [All Elements of Family Type in View]

All Elements of Family Type in View

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All Elements of Family Type in View

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