Get Family Name vs Get Type Name

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Hi Ben,

The Dynamo team has tried to keep the structure of the nodes as similar as possible to their equivalents in the Revit API. That has a lot of benefits but it may be a hindrance at times too because the API has been revised and re-revised constantly for the last 10+ years and the naming scheme in the API is frankly said is a bit of a mess. However if you think logically about it, you can still find your way through it:

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-When you run a collector of all elements of a category, you get family instances.

  • You have to then extract the family symbol object of those instances ( that’s the family type)

  • Once you have the symbol, you can cross-reference it to the families and see the family it belongs to

  • finally you can use the Name node to extract the name from the family objects as a string.

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