Getting list of Object Styles for Imported Objects

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I would like to get access to a list of Object Styles entries in Dynamo. At this stage I do not want to edit, just check if any entries exist in the “Imported Objects” pane, as per image (attached).

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I’m guessing this needs a new Python node to be built - has anyone done anything like this before? Thanks for your help.

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All right Mr. Johnson,

Finally Andreas is sleeping so I can answer a question for you. :slight_smile: LOL.

Here’s the deal. Imported Object Styles that you are looking to identify don’t really have a unique identifier within bigger Graphics Styles container so it makes it a little tricky to get them out of there. They supposedly all belong to OST_ImportedObjectStyles Category but a filter set up like that fails to return anything. I went the brute force way which might seem a little weird, but it gets the job done. I am assuming that all imported categories are coming from DWG files which gives them an extension *.dwg in their name. You probably noticed that. :slight_smile: Imports in Families is a default one that will be there whenever you open a project with imported stuff or start a fresh one. It might be empty or it might have some stuff in it. I am giving you two ways to get those imported categories:

  1. If you know the full name of the category and want only contents of that one particular one use method one:

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  1. If you don’t know the name but you are guessing like I did that they came from CAD and thus will carry a *.dwg extension in their name, use method two to get all Imported Categories that have that string in their name. Warning, results might be overwhelming if you have a lot of imports. :slight_smile: Just saying.

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Nice one, Konrad. Glad I was asleep.

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It works beautifully, thank you so much Konrad. After typing your code out manually (which helped me understand Python a bit more :slight_smile: I was able to test the various options and also build a bit more wrapping to make it work in my environment. See image below… and thanks again!

object styles tests

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Hello,

I am new to Dynamo, please excuse my lack of experience, and by default some of my sillier questions.

Is it possible to edit this method to return a list of object styles that were not imported into the project.

I need to extract the Object Styles for the categories (& subcategories) used in a client template. This client requires the list of categories, line weight, color and line pattern.

I am under the impression they will want to modify this list and push it back into the template, could this be done?

Thanks for the Help

Elyse

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Elyse,

Please post this question as a new thread. This is an old question, but given previous forum limitations no one was able to know that it was even asked. Also, its better to post a new question in a new thread rather than hijacking an already existing one since title will not be very descriptive.

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Can you share the python code please?The image is too small to see clearly.Ths

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Hi @sg289

Create a New topic please. This topic is already solved. Thanks!

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Hi Guys is there a way to see this on clear picture?

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can you please share e bigger pic? i can’t see anything.

Thank you :slight_smile:

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@Konrad_K_Sobon Do you know why I can not have none of the images in this post in their normal size? they are unreadable!

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I have the same issue. can you please share the large size image. Otherwise this post would be useless!