Hello,
my collector does just work when i add some specification…
does not work:
collector = FilteredElementCollector(doc)
does work:
collector = FilteredElementCollector(doc,doc.ActiveView.Id)
KR
Andreas
When you use a FilteredElementCollector, you can create it just using the doc, but you need to add any type of filter before actually getting elements out of it. So, you could use the .OfClass(<class>) or .OfCategory(<category>), or any other type of filter. See the remarks section in the API Docs.
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The .GetType() method is inherited from the generic Object class, so pretty much any Revit object should return a value for that. In this case, it’s returning the type FilteredElementCollector itself, not any collected element, or even the actual instantiated FEC object.
You get the same ‘no filter applied’ warning if you don’t use a filter method in Revit Python Shell as well (A), but once you apply a filter method, you’re good to go (B).
I’m guessing that Dynamo doesn’t allow a FEC object to be manipulated directly with nodes, but I don’t really know for sure.
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GetType() was just an example to avoid error, my post was just referring to this
collector = FilteredElementCollector(doc)
it works, but only return an instance of FilteredElementCollector which is not iterable, and the dynamo wrapper is probably trying to iterate over it if the object is assigned to the OUT variable
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