Beam and Column tag automatically detect existing (with a little help)

[davidjimm]

I'm posting this here and on the Dynamo forum. It's a big help for us.

With a combination of Dynamo and creating a custom tag family for beams and columns I was able to use one tag to mark both existing beams/cols(E) and new beams/columns. A real game changing for us. I will be happy to give any help on recreating this.
My first post so hopefully I do it correctly.
The dynamo code looks at the phase and if it’s existing it adds “(E)” to the value “Mark” on the member.
The tag then reads this value.
Of course, you can use any parameter of the member that is not in use. We weren’t using the “Mark” parameter.

 

 

[jeremy_tammik · Accepted solution]

Thank you very much for sharing this!