Automating "Import Family Types"

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Hi guys, really need your suggestion about this task:
I’m trying to automate FamilyTypes update/creation inside a Family Document.
Now, my manual workaround consists in:

  1. Opening the RFA file
  2. Insert > Import Family Types > Select the FamilyType Catalogue TXT file (generated with a rather simple Macro inside Excel)
  3. Let Revit to delete existing Types
  4. Saving the file

I’m trying to create a new workaround for a massive (maybe for 200 or more Families) update of the existing files, due to changed/updated parameter values inside each family compared to the datas my customers gave me at the beginning of this work.
I’d like to create a Dynamo script but can’t find the way to import types from that TXT file.
Anyone, maybe expert with Python coding, can help?

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I would just do this in a project environment, and then save out the family. Waaaaaaay easier to automate.

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Hi Jacob, let’s suppose to have an RVT repository file with all my families charged in. May you explain how you would update parameter values inside each family?
I mean, Set.Parameter.Value.ByName node should work but there are many parameters to deal with and the “manual-mode” is pretty simple and kind of…failsafe, because everything is written inside the familyType catalogue. thanks

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Element.SetParaemetByName is the method I would use, reading the type catalog directly via Dynamo.