Does anyone know a workflow to access all elements of a family type in dynamo that is loaded in a project but not placed. As it only seems to work if the families/ components are placed.
@Matt_Gaydon starting with Marcel’s graph and Adding an all instances of Type node, a Lost.Count node, and FilterByBoolMask node and you’re well on your way to what you wanted.
That put me on the right track… I used a slightly different workflow after getting the element by sorting by searching for matching strings. Could not get the OOTB string contains etc or the == nodes to work as required so resorted to a python node script from here:
Here’s the code used also
strList = IN[0]
elementNames = IN[1] # Getting the names in Dynamo before Python saves unwrapping
elementList = IN[2]
searchList = []
restList = []
for n, e in zip(elementNames,elementList): # zip together names and elements
found = False # assume search strings can't be found
for s in strList: # Loop through the search strings
if s in n: # test whether the string can be found in the name
searchList.append(e) # if true, add to searchList
found = True # set found to be true
break # skip remaining tests as string has been found
if not found: # if found is false after testing all strings
restList.append(e) # append to restList
# Assign your output to the OUT variable.
OUT = searchList, restList