Based on this thread [image] Component to split a list based on data type? Has anyone written a component to split a list based on data type? I'm thinking: Inputs: List of assorted geometry Outputs: Point, Curve, Surface, BRep, Mes… I want to filter out eve…

Does this work for you? [cull brep] Sort_By_Type 002-b.gh (31.1 KB)

Hi @Proterio , can you not?: [TypeSorter_1] TypeSorter_string.gh (12.1 KB) I once wrote a component for Embryo that reveals the volatile data type, maybe this will help if you need things that have been wrapped earlier in the process. Seems to work ok: [SortByType] TypeSorter_volatile.gh (12.0…

[image] akilli: Does this work for you? Perect. Thx I was wondering if there was a way to extract the integer that represents each type instead of parsing text name. I guess this is not exposed anywhere. John Thx. I will check out embryo as soon as I come up for air.

Well no. GUID is a globally unique identifier for an instance of an object. Somewhere there is a class definition for the object. A simple integer can represent the class ID for each geometry type instead of a text string and be exposed. In .net (c#) im not sure its possible to get down to the bare …

I use Elefront for this. You can reference or filter by type. https://grasshopperdocs.com/components/elefront/filterByType.html It is also possible to use the Human plug-in for Grasshopper. https://grasshopperdocs.com/components/human/sortObjectsByType.html

Thank you David. [p] Sort_By_Type 004.gh (21.0 KB) I am curious how other GH fans manage to grapple with all the functionality offered by GH plug-ins? Do you d/l every plug-in and systematically go through each module? I do searches but do not turn up things like this and I certainly dont have t…

Google search works for me most of the time. There are years of forum posts there where the question has likely been asked before. Also there are the super popular plugins. Going to Food4Rhino and sorting by downloads helps see the popular ones. And the grasshopper docs site is also great to searc…

Here’s one that applies to curves only, not all geometry types: [image] How Gh classifies curves Grasshopper This is an example of using David’s list of “geo labels” (see panel on left) to parse “raw text” output. It can be written many different ways in standard GH, dep…

[image] Proterio: [p] Sort_By_Type 004.gh (21.0 KB) […] This works. [y] Sort_By_Type 005.gh (19.5 KB) [missing] [missing2]

Dispatch by Geometry Type

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martinsiegrist (Martin Siegrist) November 10, 2025, 8:12am 20

Filter by Object type and use either ‘Annotation’ or ‘512’ as value

Get the geometries inside blocks, based on layer(s)

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