Elements belongs to Subcategories

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Dear All,

I have a generic family and I have a line inside it. I load this family inside my project and I need to catch this line which belong to a subcategory I know it’s name to get it’s length or coordinates of start or end points for examples.

There is any way to do this ?

Appreciate your help.

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The Python script below will look through the family geometry and return the geometry that belongs to a specific subcategory. It is written for a single family instance but can be turned into one that handles a list of elements and/or subcategory names.

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# Enable Python support and load DesignScript library and Revit nodes and services
import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
clr.AddReference('ProtoGeometry')
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *
clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)
clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager

# Document
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

# IN
elem = UnwrapElement(IN[0]) # Unwrap family instances
subcat = IN[1] # names of subcategory

# Lists
geometries = []

# Options
geomOptions = Options()

for geom in elem.get_Geometry(geomOptions):
	for g in geom.GetInstanceGeometry():
		graphics = doc.GetElement(g.GraphicsStyleId)
		if graphics != None:
			if subcat == doc.GetElement(g.GraphicsStyleId).GraphicsStyleCategory.Name:
				geometries.append(g.Convert())

OUT = geometries

Hope this helps,
Thomas

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Hello Thomas,

it works smoothly, so nice I like it but if I have many lines and each line belong to different subcategories … might you if you don’t mind update this code … unfortunately, I don’t know python :frowning:

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Hi Ahmed,

This revised version takes a list of elements and a list of subcategory names and returns a list of geometries and a corresponding list of subcategory names that the geometry belongs to enable further filtering / sorting.

Hope this helps,
Thomas

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# Enable Python support and load DesignScript library and Revit nodes and services
import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
clr.AddReference('ProtoGeometry')
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *
clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)
clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager

# Document
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

# IN
elems = UnwrapElement(IN[0]) # Unwrap family instances
subcats = IN[1] # names of subcategories

# Lists
geometries = []
subcatsOut = []

# Options
geomOptions = Options()

for elem in elems:
	geometries.append([])
	subcatsOut.append([])
	for geom in elem.get_Geometry(geomOptions):
		for g in geom.GetInstanceGeometry():
			graphics = doc.GetElement(g.GraphicsStyleId)
			if graphics != None:
				for subcat in subcats:
					if subcat == doc.GetElement(g.GraphicsStyleId).GraphicsStyleCategory.Name:
						geometries[-1].append(g.Convert())
						subcatsOut[-1].append(subcat)

OUT = geometries, subcatsOut
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You are amaaaazing :grin:… Thank you very much for your time and help.

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Hi everyone, i was trying to use this node, but it gives me the error in the image. I copy/pasted the Python script. I’m also using Revit 2020. What could it be?

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You have to input a list to iterate the code.

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