I’m creating a Dynamo script to place sleeves where cable trays intersect with walls. Both the cable trays and walls are coming from linked Revit models (electrical and architectural). I’m currently using the BiMorph LinkElement.OfCategory node to collect all cable trays from the linked electrical …

Hi @abdelrahmanelfeky6 you could try element ByCategoryInHostView from genius loci as support link i guess :wink:

iirc, that package itself has some utilities to help you filter elements by geometry where essentially it uses pre-transformed bounding boxes and solids to probe what could be in the current view. additionally, if you are using rvt 2024 or more recent builds, it supports filtering linked elements i…

ty for reply but i could you tell the node name to limite the selection to only those in spesificview

something along this line. Bimorph Nodes Element.IntersectsElement | Dynamo BIM Bimorph Nodes BoundingBox.GetElementsIntersect | Dynamo BIM where essentially you filter them by boundingbox first to get a rough result then go with solid/element intersections. or just straight brute-force solid inter…

See this post for OOTB nodes [image] Select walls from linked model? OOTB Nodes [image]

ty it worked with walls but not with cable trays any idea why? edit: it was the view range xD

Filter linked model elements (cable trays) by specific view

Mike.Buttery November 4, 2025, 11:08pm 6

See this post for OOTB nodes

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Filter linked model elements (cable trays) by specific view

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