Get builtInCategory as string, how?

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1

Hello,

i have script that works very well. With the lookup table i come until here! so how can i get the OST_ values. I`ve seen older post where they combine Category.Id too… is there a oneliner ?

grafik
grafik915×284 8.95 KB

#Template 
#DraxlA
#19.07.2023
import clr
import sys 

clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
from Autodesk.Revit.DB.Structure import *

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

clr.AddReference('System')
from System.Collections.Generic import List

clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)

clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
uidoc=DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication.ActiveUIDocument

#functions
def tolist(x):
    if hasattr(x,'__iter__'): return x
    else: return [x]

elements = UnwrapElement(tolist(IN[0]))
output = []

for e in elements:
	output.append(e.Category.GetBuiltInCategory.ToString())

OUT = output
2

ChatGPT solved it the first time :wink:

for e in elements:
	built_in_category = e.Category.Id.IntegerValue
	category_enum = BuiltInCategory(built_in_category)
	output.append(category_enum.ToString())