The overall problem is to take in all the door elements in the project, sort them by level and then re-number the doors sequentially. I have managed to grab the elements, extract the parameters I need (Unique Revit ID, Level, Mark) and lace them into a list of lists so that each door is its own list.
The problem I’m having is that it will not sort by level. When I get the parameter level Dynamo spits out the unique Revit ID of the level so in my list of 300-ish doors there are 8 unique levels. I think maybe I don’t understand the “keyList” or “keyProjector” parameter. I am trying to feed it the function GetItematIndex that points to the index of the level.
What is a keyProjector?
How do I sort a list of lists based on a particular index of the sublists?
Is this the right method to renumber doors sequentially?
Help would be appreciated.
Sounds to me like you don’t actually want to sort by the level, but rather by the elevation of the level. The key projector of SortByKey needs to be a single node, so you could wrap two nodes like Element.Level (from package Clockwork) and the built-in Level.Elevation into one custom node and use that as your key projector, like so:
I have just added this node to package Clockwork. Also, you may be interested to look at some more sorting / numbering examples:
And I think Konrad Sobon also has some sorting/numbering workflow(s) on his blog: http://archi-lab.net
Thanks that is very helpful. I downloaded the github examples as .DYN files but when I try to open them in Dynamo nothing happens - the screen stay blank. How do I view the example workflows?
I’m on 0.7.5 RC2 and I can open them just fine. Maybe it’s the browser download? Perhaps try downloading the whole repo (https://github.com/CAAD-RWTH/ClockworkForDynamo/archive/master.zip) instead.
