Room Tagging a model from a Linked Arch Model using Dynamo

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Has Anyone ever done the above?

I am very green where it comes to Dynamo and I am pulling my hair (what’s left of it!) out trying to come up with a solution, any help or advice is greatly appreciated.

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Hello and welcome :wink: try create tag from genius loci that one support link instance

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sorry, as i say, very green with dynamo, i have got a little far with it but need a little assistance, i do not understand

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what genius loci is? :slight_smile:

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thats a great custom package and can be installed from package manager, but keep in mind you will need a python package as well as these nodes is written in ironpyhon 2.7…try it :wink:

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thanks, any tips on what i am missing though? I am definitely too old for coding :slight_smile:

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have you installed genius loci package ? and ironpython 2.7 version 2.5 package as well ? try that and if give issue, just let us know, but guess it could work ironpython3 as well, but havent test

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Are you wanting to tag linked architectural rooms from an active MEP or structural model? You need to retrieve the rooms from the linked model in that case and then just tag with the appropriate family. No need to update parameters on the tag as that is exactly what a tag does on its own.

As @sovitek mentioned, you’ll probably want a custom package (like Genius Loci) that allows you to retrieve instances of linked elements. There are also a ton of threads very similar to this one that have already been discussed and answered on the forum. Read through some of them and see if you can’t find a solution or a starting point.

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Thanks Nick

As per my screenshot above, that’s where I am up to, any input or words of wisdom on that?

I am not very good (as you can tell) at this coding, so any sketches would be greatly helpful as I am just blindly trying to get things to work :slight_smile:

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hi @grahamGR6R4

to elaborate on @Nick_Boyts comment:

If you just want to tag rooms from a linked model- Dynamo isn’t needed- it is built into Revit.

i.e Annotate>Tag All not tagged>all objects in current view, include elements from linked files, room tags

Is this what you want ? Or something different ?

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yeah sure but only in current view, with dynamo we can do it in multiple

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Use the forum search to find similar topics. They will be filled with examples, suggested packages, and explanations. Use those as a starting point and see how far you get. We can answer any specific questions you run into. You have the basic logic already, you really just need a node that allows you to interact with the linked model. Many of the more popular custom packages have one - I typically use the archi-lab one but there are more.