Revit element seems randomly read-only

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Hello peoples! I’m having a problem with the level parameter of my floors.

  1. When I assign a new level to the level parameter of my floors a couple of the level parameters of a couple floors become read-only. I can’t understand why some do work and other don’t. I made a screencast, demonstrating my problem. Am I doing something wrong, bug, anything specifiek I need to add?
    Screencast video, Link to script

and/or

  1. I found 3 other topics touching on this subject. Here @T_Pover seems to solve this by using python. Unfortunately when I copy the python-code, it gives me a nonetype error on line 27. I’m using the code with a list of placed floors, not a total list of [all elements of category]. Im not familiar with revit api nor c# (c# right?) to solve this unfortunately.

pls send help

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Hello Alex,

Floors have a different BuiltInParameter for Level so that’s why the code won’t work. You can use this instead:

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import clr
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *

clr.AddReference("RevitNodes")
import Revit
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.Elements)
clr.ImportExtensions(Revit.GeometryConversion)

clr.AddReference("RevitServices")
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument

element = UnwrapElement(IN[0])
ref_level = UnwrapElement(IN[1])

TransactionManager.Instance.EnsureInTransaction(doc)

for i,x in enumerate(element):
	ref_levelid = ref_level.Id
	
	object_param_level = x.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.LEVEL_PARAM)
	object_param_level.Set(ref_levelid)

TransactionManager.Instance.TransactionTaskDone()

This only works on with a single level, if you want to use it with different levels, just change line 23 to this:
ref_levelid = ref_level[i].Id

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Thanks a lot! I got it working.

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There is something strange happening. Here you can see the output of the element.GetparameterValue… is empty. Resulting in the walls not being adjusted to to the bottom of the floors.Incorrect

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When I switch to the element list (before the python script) I get results again. And the walls update correct.
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Correct

It does the same the other way arround, so I dont think it’s a problem with the python script. Once switched, I can switch back again and it works again…
I tried to write directly to built-in parameter. No luck with that. Any ideas?