topic Selecting Elements by Discipline? in Revit API Forum

Selecting Elements by Discipline?

alanmlevy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:38:17 GMT

I tried searching for an answer to this, but couldn't find anything. Is there a way to filter elements by what Discipline they fall under? Meaning: Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, and Plumbing - OR by the top level category filters the element's category falls under: Architectural, Structural, Mechanical, Electrical, Piping, Infrastructure.

I tried looking at a category in RevitLookup, but didn't see anything that references back to either of those items.

Re: Selecting Elements by Discipline?

ctm_mka — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 15:13:31 GMT

not really no. Coming from the Structural side you could filter by category containing Structural, i think that would get you most of them, but walls and floors are shared between discipline so it would take extra effort to filter those.

Re: Selecting Elements by Discipline?

sragan — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:02:34 GMT

Some elements don't necessarily have a discipline. Annotation objects for example.

Not sure how those would be handled if there were a filter for discipline.

Re: Selecting Elements by Discipline?

alanmlevy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 19:15:38 GMT

I would assume those objects would fall under Common, or something like that. But in any case, I'm more looking to capture elements that are in MEP than annotations. I could do it by filtering for all of those categories, but I was hoping there was an easier way since the program already has a way to filter the categories by Mechanical, Electrical, and Piping.