Revit Electrical Wire Type

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While using Dynamo for scheduling wires within a project, we found out that there are 2 parameters named “Type” within Wire families in Revit (!). Am I missing something or do you think it is really this way?

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Can you show a screenshot of what you mean?

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As shown below, both fields are named as “Type” unfortunately.

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Well, The Family is “Wire Types” while the Type is “N2XH”… This specific wire type then has a parameter called “Type” with the value “Chamfer”…

I don’t see the issue? :slight_smile:

Example using a column as I do not have any wire families loaded.

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the above is a family type, the other is wire type

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Well, assume you want to change the family type for wires in dynamo using Element.SetParameterByName. You will need to give the node a Parameter Name. As usual I give it “Type”.
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But as shown in image below, there are 2 parameters named Type for one wire:

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Type controls the Arc/Chamfer parameter. If you wan’t to change the family type you can still use the Family and Type parameter.

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Thank you Nick, Family and Type worked well.