Select Electric Panelboards, not all Electrical Equipment

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The only thing (I can find) they have in common is: their family name contains “Panel.” Doesn’t seem like there is a node to select all elements and filter by “Family name contains.” I am having a hard time even creating a list of Electrical Equipment Family Names to parse. Anyone been thru this?

BTW I discovered that the Family.Name node seems broken. It doesn’t actually report the family name, it reports the Family TYPE name.

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Likely if you get the family type of the instance, and the parent family of that family type you’ll get a way to filter to the collection you’re after.

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Yup, the family name does appear a bit on the munted side in my experience as we’d say down under. I usually take the expanded type/family name and split as a string at the substring "Family: " and take the end then search that for the match.

See below for an example which runs on the basic sample project:

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Hi,
we can filter Electrical Equipments, checking a Family parameter (‘Part Type’)

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import clr
import sys
import System
clr.AddReference('ProtoGeometry')
from Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry import *
import Autodesk.DesignScript.Geometry as DS

#import Revit API
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
import Autodesk
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import *
import Autodesk.Revit.DB as DB
from Autodesk.Revit.DB.Electrical import *

#import transactionManager and DocumentManager (RevitServices is specific to Dynamo)
clr.AddReference('RevitServices')
import RevitServices
from RevitServices.Persistence import DocumentManager
from RevitServices.Transactions import TransactionManager

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
uiapp = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication
uidoc = uiapp.ActiveUIDocument
app = uiapp.Application


filterPanel = System.Predicate[System.Object](lambda e : e.Symbol.Family.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.FAMILY_CONTENT_PART_TYPE).AsInteger() == 14)
all_panels = FilteredElementCollector(doc)\
			.OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_ElectricalEquipment)\
			.WhereElementIsNotElementType()\
			.ToElements()\
			.FindAll(filterPanel)

OUT = all_panels
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