Hello I am new in using dynamo, only couple of weeks. I am trying to read dimensions parameters of a number of selected elements with different dimensions, change them to another type while keeping the dimensions of their original type. I have succeeded in doing that with only one family selected…

[image] Swap families by instance parameter value Revit Hi guys, I want to swap families based on the instance parameter value (if there is a value - change the family, if no value - no change) in the initial family. I tried some options and had zero luck. Could someone p…

hello Thanks alot for the reply however, this is different from what I am trying to achieve in this post he is reading a parameter and change the family if the parameter has a value what I am trying to do is to replace a number of selected elements that have different dimensions with another fam…

Springs has a node to duplicate elements, and there should be no problem with the extraction and setting of parameters from the original type. Archi-Lab and Clockworks also have nodes to change family type.

changing the family type can be done with the nodes already in the program, the problem is creating the link which keeps the original dimensions I will try to search for the duplicate element node from springs Thanks again :slight_smile: @Yna_Db is this node available for download? I could not fi…

Yes, sure, from the Packages menu, Search for a Package, spring nodes

Thanks a lot this actually worked :slight_smile:

Hello Dalia, Could you plz tell me how did you do it, there are lot of Spring nodes so I don’t know witch use. Thanks

Hello I used the spring node Springs.ElementType.Duplicate [dynamo]

@Dalia Hello. I want to replace a number of selected elements by another family with instance parameters and keep their original dimensions without creating a different types of the family. do you know how to do it? thx

Hello @vlad_melnik in the first image i was intending to change a family type, that is why I had to use the nodes that get the family type of the selected elements to change the parameter. changing an instance parameter will be easier you can use the same nodes from the first image and remove the fa…

Replacing a number of selected elements with another family type keeping original dimensions

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Replacing a number of selected elements with another family type keeping original dimensions

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