Element binding is the name given to the process which Dynamo manage to ‘track’ the items created in non-Dynamo files. In this case, I’m going to focus entirely on element binding as it refers to Dynamo for Revit, but the mechanism exists to allow for this behavior in other applications (advanced st…

I did! Editing now. Thanks for the proof reading. :slight_smile:

Made a PowerShell script to remove all the bindings in .dyn files. It searches all .dyn files in current folder and subfolders, and if it has any bindings it will remove them and save a copy with “_NoBindings” appended to the original filename. File size of the .dyn goes up a bit because of PS addi…

And about the Bindings data in “No Element Binding.dyn” after running and saving , the NodeId points to node “Wall.ByCurveAndHeight”, and the large non-readable value is a SOAP message (kinda XML) which was encoded in Base64 and had 4 more nested SOAPs in it, also Base64 encoded. See image for full…

Just figured that adding -Compress to the ConvertTo-Json command in line 7 gets rid of spaces and tabs and file size bloat. [image]

I’ll check this out and see if I can make sense of it and get it to work. Thank you

Check out what @john_pierson did to explain it. Crystal clear.

Jacob, thank you for your post, I really appreciate the technical explanation.

Glad it helped. For further info feel free to attend my AU course this year. The encore presentation on Thursday had openings last I checked.

Attended your AU Session on this last month and just found a chance to use and saved me a bunch of time! thank you so much @jacob.small !!

Thank you. it took me 3 days to figure this out, i was having trouble with views. Every time i run the script, it just deleted the previous ones…

Element Binding in Revit

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Dynamo Player Very slow compared to Dynamo Revit	18	2886	November 8, 2019
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Element Binding in Revit

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