https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/filteredelementcollector-of-family-instances-whitout-annotations/m-p/9147285#M38633 <P>The Element class has the "ViewSpecific" property, which you could use to filter your selection. ViewSpecific is true for detail items, generic annotations, and tags.&nbsp;</P> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:21:10 GMT bhprest 2019-11-14T18:21:10Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/filteredelementcollector-of-family-instances-whitout-annotations/m-p/9147200#M38632 <P>So I got:&nbsp;</P><P>foreach (FamilyInstance FamIn in new FilteredElementCollector(doc).OfClass(typeof(FamilyInstance)))</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>What is the best to just retrieve the non annotation FamilyInstances? Should be an easy one but Im not getting it. Thanks.</P> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 17:51:20 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/filteredelementcollector-of-family-instances-whitout-annotations/m-p/9147200#M38632 jjesusdelpino 2019-11-14T17:51:20Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/filteredelementcollector-of-family-instances-whitout-annotations/m-p/9147285#M38633 <P>The Element class has the "ViewSpecific" property, which you could use to filter your selection. ViewSpecific is true for detail items, generic annotations, and tags.&nbsp;</P> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:21:10 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/filteredelementcollector-of-family-instances-whitout-annotations/m-p/9147285#M38633 bhprest 2019-11-14T18:21:10Z https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/filteredelementcollector-of-family-instances-whitout-annotations/m-p/9147353#M38634 <P>Thanks, solved using this!</P> Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:51:45 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-api-forum/filteredelementcollector-of-family-instances-whitout-annotations/m-p/9147353#M38634 jjesusdelpino 2019-11-14T18:51:45Z