Rhino.Inside - FamilyType.ByName & Family.ByName

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Hi,
is there a way to retrieve a family or a family type by its name?
See below how Dynamo handles that.

Thanks

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Yes, Several. The latest is the Family Filter Component that does exactly what you’re showing above.

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…

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Check out the Guide for more info and workflows

https://www.rhino3d.com/inside/revit/1.0/guides/