# Finding Structural Opening Host Using Python

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/finding-structural-opening-host-using-python/66215>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Tags:** python\
**Created:** [July 14, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/finding-structural-opening-host-using-python/66215 "2021-07-14T23:11:19Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/finding-structural-opening-host-using-python/66215/1 "2021-07-14T23:11:19Z")

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Hi All, if I create an opening in a steel bar, is there any way to find the host element of it? I am trying to learn python whereby assigning the workset of the host element to the opening cut. Bear in mind this is not a void but an Opening Cut?

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