Force select remove constraints option

Revit
1

Hi,

Is there any way to avoid this dialog box popping up or automatically using python to select the remove constraints option?

Many of the families I background-open have constraints issues.

remove constraints

istcat = toList(UnwrapElement(IN[0]))			
#make filter			
lstbipCat = [System.Enum.ToObject(BuiltInCategory, x.Id.IntegerValue) for x in listcat]			
filtercat = ElementMulticategoryFilter(List[BuiltInCategory](lstbipCat))
#collector
fecSymb = FilteredElementCollector(doc).WherePasses(filtercat).WhereElementIsElementType().ToElements()   

for symb in fecSymb:

    	fam = symb.Family
    	try:
    		famDoc = doc.EditFamily(fam)	
    		if not famDoc.PathName:
    			path = ("Family location not found")
    		else:
    			path = (str(famDoc.PathName))
    			famDoc.Close(False)
    	except:
    		path = ("This is a system family")

Edit: Added Filtered Element Collector code snippit

2

Would this Revit API method work? How could you implement this in python.

https://www.revitapidocs.com/2020/b14f8805-cfa4-516e-1873-b284f82770d9.htm

3

I’m not that familiar with doing anything with Revit UI from Dynamo, but I would look into the UI events of the Revit API since you wan’t Dynamo to act on something.

https://www.revitapidocs.com/2020/43d9c4d8-fdb1-a4b2-bdc2-6eaff0f595f3.htm

I would say that this would be worth looking into.

You should be able to acces this by typing the following in python

clr.AddReference("RevitAPIUI")
from Autodesk.Revit.UI.Events import *

I’m not sure how to use this however, since (for what it looks like to me) Dynamo pauses when a pop-up comes up.
This might actually be easier to fix by writing a python auto clicker script instead of trying to solve it with Dynamo :sweat_smile: