How to get load case name and host element of hosted area load

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Hi all,

I want to get the load case name of an hosted area load in Revit but the result is loadcase Id instead. I also use the element.Host from Clockwork to get the host id but it didn’t work. Can you guys help me on this? Thanks

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Hi,
To get the name you can simply use Element.Name. Usually I also check the parameter of the element with Element.Parameters and then select them by name.

AreaLoadHost
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For the host I tried with nodes from Clockwork and Archilab but they both don’t work. You can do it with a very simple Python script:

import clr

clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
from Autodesk.Revit.DB.Structure import *

elems = IN[0]
hosts = []

if not isinstance(elems,list):
    elems = UnwrapElement([elems])
else:
    elems = UnwrapElement(elems)

for x in elems:
    host = x.HostElement
    hosts.append(host)

OUT = hosts
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Hi Luca,

Thanks a lot. but the python node didn’t work for me. Pls take a look at the warning. I don’t know python so I cannot understand the warning.
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It’s a typo in the code. Correct the spelling of “Autodesk” and you should be good.

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Yes exactly, now I corrected the post :wink:

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Hi luca. there’s a typo in the line 11 as well. should be elems instead of elem. Thanks

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Thank you! With my version of dynamo I cannot use Ctrl+C/Ctrl-V, it’s a known bug but I didn’t have the opportunity so far to udpate it. So that’s why there were a couple of typos, I had to manually rewrite here the script.
Now it should be fine :slight_smile:

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