Possible for Document.ElementTypes Family Name Filter to contain Regex?

mrainville1.618 · February 27, 2020, 12:34am

Specifically I was looking to gather all families with names starting with a specific set of characters without selecting only one specific family?

My Regex might be wrong, but thinking add a * after the specific characters and obtain all families with names that start with that ordering of characters. Then sorting and selection can occur after.

kike · February 28, 2020, 9:44am

This component do not implement this kind of filtering, but I think it would be nice it does.
I add it to the list of thing to do.

Many thanks for your comment.

eirannejad · February 28, 2020, 5:26pm

Hey @mrainville1.618
You can use the usual grasshopper pattern of filtering elements using Match Text and Cull Pattern components:

mrainville1.618 · February 28, 2020, 9:24pm

true, that is effective and functional, was merely thinking if it was possible it would be more elegant of a solution. granted using what exists has its own value instead of over complicating. thanks for the reminder @eirannejad my brain gets jumbled when switching between VPs