Delete Doubled up Detail Families

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Some how in building a template I have doubled up my detail families…

I started looking at Dynamo to assist in deleting the double ups.
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  1. I think Dynamo looks for instances in a project in the documents, hence not sure how to get a list of detail family types.

  2. Not sure if I can delete a family type from the document with Dynamo.

Thank you if you can help start me on the right track.

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Hi Justin,

You can collect all families by using Python. Then you can filter by bool mask the duplicate ones. Good Luck!
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You can also use clockwork “All Families of category” node to get detail components families:

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It might be more prudent to check only the last symbol of the family type’s name:

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@Dimitar_Venkov thought about it but went with string contains because if the string (1) comes in between or in first instead of last symbol :slight_smile:

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Hi,
Shouldn’t we change family type to the correct one before delete.elements node?

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You’re totally right. If you’re not careful and delete a family type through dynamo, all of its instances will disappear from your document. In this case, we’re dealing with a template file, so hopefully they’re yet to place any family instances :slight_smile:

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@Tomasz_Puchala @Dimitar_Venkov is right he is dealing with template file :wink:

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Oh, havent read carefully first post. For template it’s ok :slight_smile:

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Hi All.
Thanks for all this help.
I have Dynamo 1.0 installed, Clockwork has not been updated for 1.0
I was able to replace the All Elements of Type node with the Python Script from Kulkul.
I got all the way to the last node Delete Elements, this node does not seem to be part of Dynamo, I’m guessing it is a clockwork node.
I ran out of time to install an older version of Dynmo to restart the graph.

Thanks for the help - I can see this will do exactly what I want.

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Actually Tomasz_Puchala is correct.
I found out why I have a double up.
We have a drafting view that lays out all our detail families with their tags.
I imported the drafting view, this caused the double up.

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Is it possible to do this with annotation symbols?

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@Dimitar_Venkov and @Kulkul, where do you get the node for Delete Elements?

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Hi @Amu

You can get it from archi-lab package.

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the only one I can find from archi-lab is “Elements.Delete”. It doesn’t contain custom nodes like you have in yours.
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