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)
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.
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.
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.
