Title Block Family and Type

Revit
1

Hi everyone

I have a script in which I collect all the Title Block Types in the project, but I can’t seem to figure out how to get the type name

This is my code:

import clr
#import RevitAPI
clr.AddReference('RevitAPI')
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import FilteredElementCollector, BuiltInCategory, Element, FamilySymbol
doc = __revit__.ActiveUIDocument.Document
titleBlocks = FilteredElementCollector(doc).WhereElementIsElementType().OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_TitleBlocks).ToElements()

The Family Name can be easily called with the ‘FamilyName’-attribute, but how do I get the Type Name, I have to be missing something…

Any help is welcome!

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@PieterL_TM ,

i copied the template Python primier - it works!

import sys
import System
import clr

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

clr.AddReference('RevitAPIUI')
from Autodesk.Revit.UI import *

clr.AddReference('System')
from System.Collections.Generic import List

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

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

doc = DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentDBDocument
uidoc=DocumentManager.Instance.CurrentUIApplication.ActiveUIDocument


titleBlocks = FilteredElementCollector(doc).WhereElementIsElementType().OfCategory(BuiltInCategory.OST_TitleBlocks).ToElements()

OUT = titleBlocks

grafik
KR
Andreas

4

My bad, I didn’t specify that I was writing this outside of dynamo. I want the Type Name as a string in Python.

5

If you’re already dealing with the Types then the Name property should be the type name or you can always look up the Type Name parameter value.

6

Yes the lookup worked, I don’t understand why just calling the Name doen’t work though.