# How to get the different family types of the door in dynamo? **URL:** \ **Category:** Revit\ **Tags:** revit, dynamo\ **Created:** [February 9, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-the-different-family-types-of-the-door-in-dynamo/73182 "2022-02-09T15:39:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Li_Zhuoran_2128)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-the-different-family-types-of-the-door-in-dynamo/73182/1 "2022-02-09T15:39:26Z")
![475729b90843552873f5c19461bbc53](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/6/0/602a06507618411a52a6168ec6e2ab71de9b6867.png) ![eea077d8a71a5d13c882bdaea294e12](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/8/4/841c381588eabd7aff3799e8cb26682b1d9d1c36.png) There are six doors with different names, I tried to solve it with (Family.byname), but in revit he has six different types, which is too heavy to do, so I tried a new method, but I don’t know how to search specifically Sincerely need your help ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Boyts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/nick_boyts/32/76313_2.png) [@Nick\_Boyts](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Nick_Boyts)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-the-different-family-types-of-the-door-in-dynamo/73182/2 "2022-02-09T15:55:13Z")
Clockwork has an `All Family Types Of Category` node for exactly this. Otherwise you have to go through some roundabout ways of getting families and types based on category, likely with some python. ---
**Author:** ![Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Li_Zhuoran_2128)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-the-different-family-types-of-the-door-in-dynamo/73182/3 "2022-02-09T15:55:57Z")
thank you, i try now ---
**Author:** ![Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Li_Zhuoran_2128)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-the-different-family-types-of-the-door-in-dynamo/73182/4 "2022-02-09T16:04:27Z")
do it,thank you ---
**Author:** ![Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Li_Zhuoran_2128)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-the-different-family-types-of-the-door-in-dynamo/73182/5 "2022-02-09T17:18:21Z")
![49317792459e9dbd16fa65a10f8bf01](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/e/0/e009dcdd0e75b91f727cd0a249cd72e9534145dc.png) I’m really sorry to bother you so late, I would like to ask how to delete list3 and list4, I use dropitem, but it is difficult to control the scope. . ---
**Author:** ![Nick\_Boyts](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/nick_boyts/32/76313_2.png) [@Nick\_Boyts](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Nick_Boyts)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-the-different-family-types-of-the-door-in-dynamo/73182/6 "2022-02-09T18:09:57Z")
It would be helpful if you could show us where those values come from. You’d likely be better off filtering those items ahead of time rather than trying to remove them later on if possible. ---
**Author:** ![Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9d8465/32.png) [@Li\_Zhuoran\_2128](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Li_Zhuoran_2128)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/how-to-get-the-different-family-types-of-the-door-in-dynamo/73182/7 "2022-02-10T14:36:26Z")
See this later,sorry i has fixed those quetion,thank you