I’m creating a script to tag elements from link in host project in a section view. I’m using node from GeniusLoci called SelectByCategoryInHostView to collect elements from link, but it doesn’t give me all elements visible in the view from linked model, just some of them. What is wrong with that? […

@PiotrB , you can do in python #🌈 links linked_docs = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_RvtLinks).WhereElementIsNotElementType().ToElements() lnkInstance = [i for i in linked_docs if i.Name.Contains("Project 1")] doclnk = lnkInstance[0].GetLinkDocument() # 🛒 collect doo…

I’m getting error like this: [image] And I’d like to specify list of views instead of active view.

[grafik] @PiotrB , when you run in Revit 2024, Dynamo has still a bug. ( i hope it will be solved with the next hotfix ) I use IronPython2, just install IronPython2 package, it should run! KR Andreas

The same for IronPython2 [image]

@PiotrB did you download? [grafik] i see it is not change able [grafik]

Make sure you reference library before copy and paste : import clr clr.AddReference('RevitAPI') clr.AddReference('RevitServices.dll') # Import Revit elements from Autodesk.Revit.DB import FilteredElementCollector, BuiltInCategory

[image] chuongmep: # Import Revit elements from Autodesk.Revit.DB import FilteredElementCollector, BuiltInCategory [grafik]

Yes, I did. Still isn’t working.

How to collect elements from link visible in a view

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chuongmep April 16, 2024, 12:26pm 11

I recomend you should go here to see solution Filter Element from Linked Model only if visible in active view - #6 by c.poupin

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