Hello all! I am quite new to Dynamo, so any advice is appreciated. I want to select all instances of a fabrication part, however when I select the part and pull the family name, then feed that name to the Family.ByName node (which pulls the correct family name), it cannot find any matching families…

Jacob, Updating this thread with the information you send over DM: I took your advice and disabled all addons, as well as switched the run style from automatic to manual. It worked! Thank you very much. It appears that the main issue was not the addons but the automatic run setting, as when I swit…

Family.ByName not recognizing fabrication family

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volkan.isik March 19, 2022, 4:16am 7

@Carter123
You can also use this method if you are having trouble installing the Archi-lab package.

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Family.ByName not recognizing fabrication family

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