Placing Saw cut subconnections - type doesn't exist

[miguelmachadoecosta]

I'm trying to place Saw cut subconnections on truss members. It works fine but only if there is already one such connection in the project, otherwise the type doesn't exist.

I'm getting the type like this:

Dim connType As ElementType = New FilteredElementCollector(doc).WhereElementIsElementType.Cast(Of ElementType).Where(Function(x) x.FamilyName = "Saw cut - Flange" And x.Name = "Saw cut - Flange").First

Is there another way of achieving this?

Thanks in advance.

[miguelmachadoecosta · Accepted solution]

My solution for now was to embed a template project with the type of sub-connection included and copy that type between projects in case it's missing.

But there must exist a better way...