Hello everyone, how can I change every family in a category to another category in dynamo? Just like a bulk category change for the families inside a category?

Welcome to the forum. How to get help on the Dynamo forums - FAQ - Dynamo What have you tried so far? What options have you looked into? What categories are the existing families? What category do you want to change them to? How are you loading the families? Are there any additional settings that …

manually is easy, but i need it batched. Manual I do it by clicking on object>edit familly>category and parameters (yellow folder in properties) and then I change it from its family to the family I want. I would llike to do it for mutipe objects instead of one by one.

Missing a few steps there, and some needed information. Most importantly: do you plan on loading the family back into the project, or saving it to a library? Have you tried anything with Dynamo yet? If not have you searched the forum, as there are some good examples you can build from such as thi…

I don’t plan to use the result in revit. I want to export it into rhino. So I need to change category so it wil fit inside rhino. This exampe you send don’t fit in my question because it woud need to select family by family in dynamo to change its category, while I want to Change all category X ele…

The example I sent would work with a bulk selection just as well as your selection method, however you’ll be doubling or tripling up in the work as you’re grabbing instances instead of families. Give it a shot and see where you get. I also fail to see how exporting to Rhino as is won’t work for yo…

@jacob.small Can you pass me the script, not sure why mine is not working? [2024-12-31_17-15-53]

Now that it is changed you need to load it into your document. I recommend saving it as well. Note that this is not the same as the post I linked, as these nodes are not the Genius Loci versions. l recommend installing that package and building the graph linked. As I am on vacation until the new y…

Hi @lone.pate seems you try with ootb and thats possibele as well, but then you need convert your revit.application.family.document to autodesk.revit.db.document…i would just use Genius loci as Jacob mention… for all and then dont need convert…here with converting revit application… [Skærmbillede …

Check this Change multiple family categories - #4 by _Vijay

Hi @sovitek , I have a question, the node called “DynamoDocumenttoDBDocument” which package is it in? Because when I try to put it, it doesn’t appear.

How to batch change category families to another categoy?

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sovitek February 13, 2025, 6:40am 12

Hi that one can be found in Rhythm package, guess openmep have as well

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How to batch change category families to another categoy?

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