How to get family and its type from an Element

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

Let's say I have the following code snippet.

Element element =  doc.GetElement(id);

So, I wonder can I use API to get the family name and family type name of an element?

Thank you

[jeremytammik]

Dear Ali,

First of all, if you run into questions like this, you should definitely take the time to work through the getting started material. It covers all such basic question in full and depth:

http://thebuildingcoder.typepad.com/blog/about-the-author.html#2

Secondly, you can easily discover and explore such relationships interactively using RevitLookup:

https://github.com/jeremytammik/RevitLookup

Third:

• Element.GetTypeId return the element id of the element type or symbol -- http://www.revitapidocs.com/2018/cc66ca8e-302e-f072-edca-d847bcf14c86.htm
• From the type, you can determine the family -- http://www.revitapidocs.com/2018/14272fe6-5fc3-f053-b4c6-2f44d05786f2.htm

Cheers,

Jeremy