Hi all, I am wondering how I can copy linked elements to my model without the parent families (the linked elements are sometimes nested in other families). The only way I’ve thought I can solve this is to copy those over that are not nested and then place new ones in the exact some location/orientation as those that are nested but I need to load those family types in which I can’t seem to find a way of doing in Dynamo. Appreciate any assistance that can be provided!
Hi Tristan, you can try the bimorph package as it allows listing linked elements from the revit link instances.
On top of my head to note here is that nested Revit families must be the “Shared” type of family. This will automatically push it to the project file instead of nesting inside the parent family. Then, this enables you to extract the family from the linkinstance rather than from the nested.
Secondly. might be worth trying the Element.GetChildElements node. See if it yields any output that you require after extracting from the linkinstance categories.
Will see if I can produce a sample once I have access to my workstation once more… Hope that helps 
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Thanks Jason, I ended up trying a few copy from link nodes and “Springs” node “Document.CopyFromLinkInstance” did the job. I haven’t gone into the code to see what it does differently from the rest yet. Thanks for your help though!
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