Selecting families by providing partial name

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I’m wanting to be able to select any titleblock families in my project. Not titleblocks in use, but any titleblock family.

All of our titleblock familes start with “AP_Titleblock” and then have more description in the name after. So, if I can search for just the common text, I can grab them all.

Right now, the only option I’ve found is selecting each family by the specific names and doing a list join.

The problems are:
A. I have to specify every titleblock name
B. If it can’t find that specific name in the project, the script bombs on the list join.

I’ve seen options via add-on packages to find elements by giving a partial name, but not for families.

Any help is appreciated!

Thanks!
Matt

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@TheMattatonAP
See attached image, that will be a way to select families that are not used in the model

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Ah yeah. That’s better than what I was trying. I was getting all families in the project with an add-on node and then filtering as you are. I like starting with Family Symbol.

Thanks!

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