Query Families return text?

[ctu6]

Hi,

As shown in the image below, Query Families returns Text instead of Family, while both Query Categories and Query Types seem to return the corresponding data type.
Is there any specific reason for that?

[Japhy]

Hi Ctu6,

@kike

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.