Remove Parameters from a Revit Family

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@erfajo I have attempted to use the DanEDU package in order to remove parameters from multiple families.

I have looked through a few other threads trying to keep up as to the changes that have been made to your package.

This is the script below, all nodes are from the DanEDU package excluding the Document.BackgroundOpen and Document.Close which are from the Rhythm package.

Run%20Started
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The script executes successfully however running it again produces the screen shot above, where Dynamo pretty much hangs and says “Run Started…”

However closing and restarting Revit allows me to run the script successfully again, but a second attempt yields the same problem.

From my investigation, it appears that the file is not closing properly hence re-running the script again causes the script to hang. I have tested this by replacing the file in the folder with a different one, and running the script again successfully without restarting Revit.

Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Thanks

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Thanks for the help,

As requested please find attached family and dyn file.

ME_FuelTank.rfa (288 KB)

Modify Family Parameters.dyn (7.8 KB)

I have attempted to remove parameters Width and Height, on separate runs. The second run leads to the program hanging.

I have confirmed that there is nothing wrong with the remove parameter node as per your suggestion, by opening a family and just running that on the script.

Do you have any suggestions on how I should go about testing the Document Close node? Or Can you try the uploaded script on your side.

Thanks

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Thanks erfajo, so its just an outdated package then.

Sorry about the confusion I just dropped in the dyn file without saving it, hence “@phase” was still left there from when I was trying out that parameter on a previous family file.

Appreciate the help.

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Will confirm and reply here. Thanks.

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So how can we check if a parameter exists in the document first… say we have a list of parameters we want to remove, but not sure they all exist in the family

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and i get this warning on the familydocument.deleteparameter; a sub-transaction can only be active inside an open transaction. But i do use the application.opendocumentfile node before that…so i am opening the file…

Arno