Placing Annotation Families on Filtered Sheets

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I am using Springs.Collector.Sheets to filter sheets which contain a specific word in title and place a family type to the matching sheets via FamilyInstance.ByPointInView using the longest (also tried cross product) lacing and it places the desired family type.

The problem is when I run the script again with a different selection of sheets it removes the previously places family types.

Can anyone shed a light on this?

Thanks

[jacob.small]

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The problem is when I run the script again with a different selection of sheets it removes the previously places family types.

This is an element ownership issue. Utilize Dynamo Player for the graph and it should be fine. Be sure to clear the element bindings from the graph before you proceed.

See this post for info on that.

Element Binding in Revit

Element binding is the name given to the process which Dynamo manage to ‘track’ the items created in non-Dynamo files. In this case, I’m going to focus entirely on element binding as it refers to Dynamo for Revit, but the mechanism exists to allow for this behavior in other applications (advanced steel, fusion, alias, etc.) as well. In the context of Revit, ‘elements’ refers to anything with an Element ID in the Revit database. When utilized correctly, element binding will expand how you leverag…

[Cahit_Okten]

Comprehensive explanation! Thanks Jacob.