Selecting divided surface Families

[kempajulian]

I created  In-Place Masses within my Project containing Families on their divided Surface.

So ive got a couple hundred instances of this family but i can't differentiate them by any means.

I cant even select them at once, i have to enter the mass and then click every individual Panel. 

That makes it hard to differentiate them by level for example. 

I can either select every single one or all of them (through a schedule or "all instances in project")

Is there a way to make selections in a sensible way?

[Amodio.Alessio · Accepted solution]

Why not to use Curtain system instead?

[kempajulian]

They are not versatile/adaptive enough.

I need to use adaptive families to generate elements which arent rectangles.

[barthbradley]

I don't understand the issue. I opened your project and see this - a couple of in-place modeled forms with divided surfaces and 200 panels: 

What do you want to do with them?  

[kempajulian]

Let's say i want to assign the upper panels a level.
Let's say i want to write into each of the higher elements' "commentary" parameter the value "level 2" for scheduling.
How would you do this? I cant select more than one element at a time or all of them at once.

To make my Point clear I've updated my Project with a schedule. Please see if you can find a way to split the list into

100 Panels for Level 1  and

100 Panels for Level 2...

[barthbradley]

Perhaps I could be more helpful if you could describe what you are actually planning construction/documentation of. I'm thinking there's a better way. I could be wrong, but what the heck. 

[kempajulian]

Pretty much what you are seeing in my Project there. 

This is a workflow intended for planning access flooring. (double flooring essentially)

It's saving me a lot of time, since it generates elements, even when the boundarys are slanted and also generates the supports pretty easily.

Im pretty satisfied with this, except for assigning defferent values for groups of the same type.

I added a new Version of the project, so you can see the advantages (generating supports/tiles automatically even with changing room boundaries and cutting tiles to fit).

Move  the northern wall for example to see what I mean.

[kempajulian · Accepted solution]

The Solution in my case was writing a Dynamo Script.
There's no feasable way to do it revit internally.
So... solved. Kind of.