How to - Select and Delete all Wall Types with Name Containing String

[john_pierson]

@shawnvanboven this is your answer…

I circled it in red to make it clearer for you.

They are not saying to use the wall types node. But choose WallType which is a completely valid Revit element class in the element types node.

Please look through and try the above answer before getting upset.

and the original post:

@awilliams

This works on my end as well to delete Wall Types with names containing a string (it is only showing one element under the Object.Type node because only one of my walls contained “R”):

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If your Elements.Delete node isn’t working, try one from a different package. The one I am using is from archi-lab.

[shawnvanboven]

Perfect, thank you, that works! I thought you were referring to the node called Wall Types, which is found under elements.

[Nick_Boyts]

Gotta pay attention to the specifics. There are a lot of intricacies and similarities between nodes.

[shawnvanboven]

Thank you Nick, awilliams, john, and Yna_Db for your help, and my sincerest apologies for the misunderstanding. I am still learning all the terminologies for Dynamo and its differences from Revit, and I appreciate all the help as I want to continually learn how to improve my workflow. I am very thankful that you were all able to solve this issue as I have been going through tons of trial and error all day fighting this one.

Regards,

Shawn van Boven