Hi!
I’m trying to automatically open a large number of rvt files (created from ifc links), delete certain elements (in this case bolts and generic models) and then save.
I have a similar script that successfully purges all of the files (thanks for sharing @Alban_de_Chasteigner), however I am struggling to make the attached work. The graph appears to run successfully, however the elements I expect to be removed / deleted from the models are still there.
Does anyone have any experience of doing a similar thing or any ideas on where I’m going wrong?
Many thanks in advance.
BatchDeleteRevitDocumentElements.dyn (56.2 KB)
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Hi @thomas.lundUUGP8,
For several documents, the Delete Elements in Document node should work with a longest lacing.
Thanks @Alban_de_Chasteigner. I’ve tried switching that node to longest lacing but it still doesn’t seem to have delete the elements I expected it to. I’m not actually sure if it’s removed anything:
It is working fine with standard Revit files.
Did you try to delete IFC elements with Dynamo in a current document and does it work ?
Hi @Alban_de_Chasteigner, I had it working using the below - this worked on the ifc elements:
DeleteElementsInDoc.dyn (40.3 KB)
A few different nodes in use as these didn’t work with the batch version.
Can you share one of your Revit files ?
It is working with your sample file.
One document :
Several documents (3 copies of your example file) :
Not sure why it doesn’t work for you.
How odd! Many thanks for testing - I’ll try to figure out why it’s not working at my end and post here.
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So it finally ran and it looked to have worked, however looks like it’s only deleted elements in the original file (and not the duplicated ones):
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Did it remove in all of the files for yourself?
Yes you’re right. This custom node probably needs a code review.
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Hi,
I forgot about this topic but the Delete Elements custom node has been updated in Genius Loci v2021.3.23 and after checking the deletion now works for several files.
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