Get all elements of picked family

[m.quijada]

Hi everyone,
I’m making a dynamo and I want to get all the elements of a picked family.

Can you explain me how I can do this ?

Thx

[lucamanzoni]

In your case the mistake is to use FamilyType.Name, because it’s converting an Element to a string, and the node AllElementsOfType needs an Element.

Here 2 examples, in case you want only a specific Type or all the Family Types:

[m.quijada]

Thank you but how can I get all the elements of a selected family ?

[lucamanzoni]

I showed you, the lower part of the image:
FamilyInstance.GetFamily > Family.Types > All Elements of Family Type

Is it not what you need?

[3Pinter]

@m.quijada as @lucamanzoni mentioned, that’s what you need.

[m.quijada]

I don’t know why it doesn’t works

[3Pinter]

Ah structural framing requires a different node:

[m.quijada]

ok it works now
Thank you @3Pinter & @lucamanzoni !!

[3Pinter]

you are welcome!

ps. mark a reply as solved to help others.

[m.quijada]

done

[lucamanzoni]

@3Pinter ok, but this is to get all the elements of a type, not of a family (and it’s the same as the top part of the first graph I posted).

Let’s say you have a IPE beam family, with 3 types (180, 240, 300), each one 3 elements (9 in total).
In this way you get only the instances of the same type (i.e. 3 x 180), not all the IPE beams.

I was working on something like this, maybe it can be simplified further:

PS. From which package is StructuralFraming.Type node?

[3Pinter]

@lucamanzoni

StructuralFraming.Type is OOTB.

Below food for thoughts?

[lucamanzoni]

I spent at least 15 minutes looking for it and couldn’t find it, I probably need a holiday. I will look for it again tomorrow

[3Pinter]

Grab that good-morning-coffee and you’ll find it at Revit > Element > StructuralFraming > Type

[lucamanzoni]

Thanks @3Pinter , I found it but only in version 1.3, same for node FamilyInstance.GetType.
When I open Dynamo 2.0.2 (the one I always use), I don’t have those nodes.

Here from 1.3:

And here from 2.0.2:

So I wasn’t actually completely blind
But actually it’is weird, because in the Dictionary it says version 1.x 2.x

Which version are you using?

[3Pinter]

Both, but you are right, this one was done in 1.3 not 2.x

Hmm. Did we accidently bump into a bug?
(and fyi: not available in 2.x for me too)

In 2.x we could:

[lucamanzoni]

True! I guess they replaced the StructuralFraming.GetType and FamilyInstance.GetType to a more generic (and better) ElementType!

The methods are however still available usign a codeblock:

[3Pinter]

Yeah, better and more logical approach.

Oh well, more reasons to go to 2.x!

[N.Nikolic]

Hello Luca,

I have a similar problem, but I’m not sure how to solve it. I want to select a specific family that has a lot of types and those types that are in use to assign them numbers.
I did it but only for one type, but I want to do it for all types that are active.

Thanks in advance

Liebe Grüße
N.Nikolic