Hi,
I’m writing some Python code in Dynamo to set up elevations.
As part of this I need to find a certain ViewFamilyTypes - to do this I need to return the ViewFamilyTypes Name, which I can do with the following two pieces of code:
(Note that the code picks out the fifth ViewFamilyTypes - which is the one I need, I will eventually write some code which evaluates the list).
And then:
This returns:
Which is what I want.
But I want don’t want two pieces of code, I want to add them together, so I did this:
But this generates the error:
Am I missing something, I cant work out why two pieces of code works, whereas one doesn’t.
I would appreciate some advise.
Thanks.
Hi @Kevin_Bell
If you wrap your element you’ll be able to access it’s name :
Make sure to import all the required extensions:
import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import*
clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
clr.AddReference('RevitNodes')
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)
doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
a = []
viewfamilies = FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(ViewFamilyType).ToElements()
pickone = viewfamilies[5].ToDSType(True)
name = pickone.Name
OUT = name
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I see, I thought wrapping was either the WrapElements or UnWrapElements command - ToDSType is new to me.
Where can I find information about the Revit.Elements namespace? Looking through the Revit 2015 API.chm help file I cannot seem to find anything in there. Guess its a Dynamo thing then…
Thank you @Mostafa_El_Ayoubi this is helpful. But I was wondering if want to get the name of a ViewFamily in a python script but outside dynamo will this work?
Since I far as I know that unwrapping Elements is only a dynamo thing right?
