Creating Family Types in Revit

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Family Types from Excel

Hi Kukul, Thank you for getting back to me. This was based on a previously closed thread which used the “ElementType.Duplicate” node. The closest I can find is “ElementTypesMatchList” but this has different inputs. Perhaps I’m just missing the node from the package? Please see attached screenshot of graph. I’ve selected the family from the drawing and created a list from an external Excel so just need to create duplicate family types and push the names in the list to the newly created familie…

Create New Family Types in Family Document while in Project Environment

I realized that I could not find a solution on the forum or any packages (that I already had) that allows adding a new family type to a family document while in a project file, after seeing this post here and searching: There are already shared workflows/nodes that allow users to create new family types within the project environment, but I couldn’t find any that would save those new family types within the family documents themselves, as well. Given the API docs show that the Family Manager …