Open to ideas here, I have a host of family types to rename to comply with a new naming convention. Tried element.name = x in a family document, it says the parameter is read only. Tried it as well as element.setname in a Revit doc, it changed the name in the browser, but not the actual type name. …

The CurrentType property is a get/set property, so you can set it equal to the type and it will change the current type in the family document. The trick here is that you need to do that within a transaction to have it actually go through and allow you to change the type name. CurrentType Property …

Renaming Family Types in either a family document or a Revit File

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pyXam May 1, 2024, 8:55pm 4

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Renaming Family Types in either a family document or a Revit File

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