How to find name

[BugFinder]

I didn't expect to be doing too much of this, but I find myself with a few void extrusions like the one below:

which I've left as their default names.  Some of which are walls and others ceilings.

I can find them using the rather laborius way of searching through the family tree but I can still have multiple wall voids named Wall 1, Wall 2, Wall 3 etc and I've no idea which is which.

Is there a way to find the name of a void when you click on it?  Like in the image above, I have it highlighted but I don't know what it is called..!!

I was hoping the name might appear in the properties tree but no such luck 😉

[ToanDN]

Create a schedule, set the schedule and a 3d view side by side, select each row in the schedule and the element will be highlighted in tbe 3d view.

[Lachlan-JWP · Accepted solution]

Hover your cursor over the void and a tooltip will show up next to the cursor showing the element category, family name, type name. This also shows up in the bottom left of the Revit window.

[barthbradley]

Huh?  Are you saying the name of the family doesn't show up under Properties when you select it?  You sure about that? 

Have you given much thought to maybe instituting a naming convention for In-Place Families? It would make it a whole lot easier to identify and manage them.   

[Lachlan-JWP]

Funnily enough they don't. I tried a couple of different model in place elements and the name doesn't show up in properties even if you name the family/element when it's created.

The only renaming option I can find is in the family section of the project browser.

[BugFinder]

@barthbradleyThis is what I get in the properties windows after selecting the cutout:

Ordinarily I do name things appropriately as I'm going along (unless it's just a rough test piece just to get the hang of a particular feature in which case it gets scrapped afterwards!!) but I wasn't envisaging having more than one and then things got carried away.......

@Lachlan-JWPI found it too in the families browser but only after searching as I didn't know what to look for.

[thomas.mackay]

I also find it odd that the name doesn't turn up in the properties list. What's the point, otherwise, of a name.