# Baluster Count?

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/baluster-count/3249>\
**Category:** Packages\
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/baluster-count/3249 "2016-02-23T14:54:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Arek\_Keshishian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/arek_keshishian/32/13398_2.png) [@Arek\_Keshishian](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Arek_Keshishian)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/baluster-count/3249/1 "2016-02-23T14:54:40Z")

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Hello everyone!  
Any way to schedule baluster count by the help of Dynamo? Revit’s shamefully missing this feature. Thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![john\_pierson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/john_pierson/32/191977_2.png) [@john\_pierson](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/john_pierson)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/baluster-count/3249/2 "2016-02-23T15:11:00Z")

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Kind of interesting. But it seems the Element.Geometry node only pulls balusters from a railing. So if you count the solids, this should be right.

 ![2016-02-23 13_40_29](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/2X/8/8aa05ffc6a69a8f7dd16164f7415b476480f95cb.png)

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**Author:** ![john\_pierson](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/john_pierson/32/191977_2.png) [@john\_pierson](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/john_pierson)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/baluster-count/3249/3 "2016-02-23T15:38:13Z")

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I accidentally lied. the rail in my example didn’t have horizontal members… So I made this little gem. Will upload to Rhythm now.

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 ![2016-02-23 14_07_12](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/2X/4/475e993e2f605a926b1612f91ec692067773c458.png)

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**Author:** ![Arek\_Keshishian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/arek_keshishian/32/13398_2.png) [@Arek\_Keshishian](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Arek_Keshishian)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2016, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/baluster-count/3249/4 "2016-02-26T12:24:51Z")

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wow 🙂 I’m so glad I suggested this and even more glad that you responded by making a special tool for it. I was actually asking for scheduling purposes, so it would have been great if there was a way to know which family and type it belonged to and the count of it throughout the project, the level it’s on, etc… I still can’t believe Revit doesn’t have this built in. Thanks a thousand times for all the hard work, John! You’re great and an inspiration!