Query Families output - text list?

[barden00]

Hi,
I just wonder if Query Families should indeed output families as a text list?
I ran a couple of times already into situations where I wanted to connect Query Families output with Family Identity or Family Types input.

[scottd (Scott Davidson)]

You can use Panels and select the streaming mode with a right-click.

Or if you want to format CSV style text file so it can look in a spreadsheet.

[barden00]

Hi, thanks.

1. What is the name of this component p,g ? It doesn’t seem to be from vanilla Grasshopper.

2. The thing is that I want the opposite.
   I don’t want Families as a list of strings. I expected a List of Revit Family Primitives so I can use them as an input for the Family Identity or Family Types components.

Query Types outputs Type Primitive, Query Families IMO should output Family Primitive. I can convert Family Primitive to text by connecting Panel if I need to.

[Japhy]

Hi Barden00, See this post to why the Query Families outputs text.

Family Filter and Query Family outputting text instead of a Revit family

Hi @libnypacheco, Since Revit has System Families and Component Families we need a way to handle both. The problem is System Families do not have any representation on Revit API besides its name. That’s why we reference families here as texts. You can do your own Famly Filter like this. [image] As you can see this filter is not the fastest ever since is a combination of two slow filters, Type Filter is the slow one here, and tooks 4.5s to run the Query. Alternatively, if you don’t need a F…

[Japhy]

The create CSV is from the Lunchbox plugin

Here’s a quick way to get all families and types as well.

[barden00]

Now I got a better understanding.
Thanks!