Labeling a large number of polysurface solids as Generic Models

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I have a large group of solid panels that I’ve made from closed polycurves, used this to create a surface and then Surface.Thicken to create my panels. I’ve used ImportInstance.ByGeometries to bring in the panels to my Revit model.

They’ve all come in as “Import Symbol” and then have a random string for each one. This is fine and gets the job done, but I’m wondering -

Is there a way that I could bring these all in as a Generic Family and then let their type be the random string?. I’m mainly looking to associate more data with the individual units if possible.

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Not entirely sure I know what you mean, but have you tried the import functionality in spring nodes?

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Hi Jostein,

I’ve been looking at the spring nodes import, it seems to describe what I’m trying to achieve, but I’d like all the units to come in as a individual family types rather than each as a family (for sanity’s sake - I don’t want to add +2500 new families into my model! But if they are family types, sub-categorized under a Generic model family, that would be fine). Is this what Spring Nodes does? I understood it differently…

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No it doesn’t work that way, unfortunately. Have you considered building adaptive families as an alternative?

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Well you’ve definately got my approach nailed. Yes normally I would build an adaptive family for this and that was my original approach, however the panels I have created have various cutouts for conduit/structure/etc, meaning a number have circular/non-linear polycurve paths that I’d like to retain. I was hoping there would be an approach similar to the adaptive component where the family would be organized as a singular item with slight variances in the type. I don’t suppose theres an adaptive component family strategy for this?