Hi, I’m new to Dynamo, and I’ve been trying to make a list of unused items for a week now. I need to get a list of all unused items in dynamo in any way, please help.

What is the end goal of having the list?

would say the same as Jacob what is the list for ? guess you probably after some purging instead maybe :wink:

The ultimate goal of the list is to create an Excel spreadsheet from this list of unused items for checking projects.

[photo_2025-05-26_10-13-27] I tried to do this through python and Revit API, but I was only able to get the categories of unused items, but I need the full name of the item.

Phase -1 isn’t going to give you what you’re after. Doubly so as you’re filtering to ‘not element type’ meaning if you put a chair type into the model but don’t use it the filter is won’t see it. What you are getting are things which atypical phase structure, those can include annotation elements, s…

Your answer lies in this post [image] Purge Unused - Revit 2024 Revit To aid everyone’s use of the new Purge Unused API within revit 2024, i have released a copy of the code in python at the following location slight_smile Line 53: purgeElements = doc.GetUnusedElement…

How to create a list of unused items in a project

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haganjake2 May 26, 2025, 9:52am 7

Your answer lies in this post

Line 53: purgeElements = doc.GetUnusedElements(catIdList)

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