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? [image]

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. [image] [image]

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 …

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” → “Ty…

Hey Japhy, seems Class filter is not working for all the classes. Is it still in process? [image]

I believe that’s a regression. Thanks for reporting. [image]

Hi @hali1 , Right now ‘Query Elements’ do not query Types, please use ‘Query Types’ for this or ‘Query View Types’ in this specific case. [image]

Query Families component returns string

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Japhy (Japhy) July 13, 2022, 2:51pm 6

An alternative to the Family Component Picker would be to Query the Family class.

Query Family returning String

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Query Families component returns string

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