The “Query Families” component just returns a string instead of a DB.Family -which to me seems a bit useless as it can’t be casted to family. Is this the intended behavior?
Hi,
You are right this needs to be fixed.
Hi Kike, has this been resolved? I can’t seem to get the loaded families in Revit. I want to edit their parameters but I can’t because I can’t reference them from Revit to Rhino.
@attheeast18 There is a reason the component outputs family names. A lot of families in Revit are System Families (are not editable) and do not have a representation in the API. This component returns the names of families so you can use the query type to find the types for a family whether it is a system or custom family.
Will this be fixed soon?
This makes a lot of family related scripts hard to achieve. For instance, “Save Component Family” requires a DB.family instead of srting to work. If some automatic process happend in front of that component, that process will be broken. “View Element” → “Element Type” → “Type Identity” -->“Type Family” -->“String”, then the chain stopped here. Users have to pick family from “Component Family Picker” one by one to feed the “Save Component Family”.
Thanks!
Hi @attheeast18,
Here a cluster to convert Family Name to Family.
RiR-QueryComponentFamily.gh (20.2 KB)
You can save it on your toolbar as a user object like this.
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Hi @hali1,
Right now ‘Query Elements’ do not query Types, please use ‘Query Types’ for this or ‘Query View Types’ in this specific case.
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