Create new family instance

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Hello, I’m really new to revit and dynamo and I have no idea what I’m doing.

I’m trying to populate parameters in a family type using Element.SetParameterByName. Firstly, I’m trying to get elements from one family type. Here’s a screenshot:

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But “All Element of Family Type” is empty?? Does this mean that there are currently no elements in this family? If that’s so, how do I create elements so that I can feed it into the Element.SetParameterByName?

Any example Dynamo graphs will be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

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All Elements of Family Type gets all family instances of the supplied type - so it looks like you have no placed instances of that type. You already have the type selected from the dropdown though. You can assign parameter values to it directly.

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Okay thank you!