Selection across multiple detail views

[jschmidtNV5HW]

I have multiple detail views that are very similar. There is an object in each of those detail views who's fill pattern I want to change but I do not want to go into each view and select them individually. Is there a way to make a similar selection area across multiple detail views? Or simply select the same object on multiple views?

I am unable to do 'select all instances' as there are other similar objects that I do not want to alter.

[RLY_15 · Accepted solution]

With some knowledge of Dynamo you can create a checkbox UI for your list of Drafting Views.

Workflow would be something like:

Go to Drafting View A, click on the Detail Component

Run script, it presents a checkbox list of all Drafting Views

Click down the list for each View you want to be part of the search.

Script gets all Instances of the Detail Component in that list of views and adds them to your selection.

Swap out the Detail Component with a version with a different Fill Pattern.

[jschmidtNV5HW]

Thank you! This makes sense.

I know of dynamo and roughly what it does but have never used it. Do you have any good tutorials you recommend for learning the basics of it @RLY_15 ?

[RLY_15 · Accepted solution]

Development of scripts in Dynamo can go a lot of different directions - I'd start with the Dynamo Primer  https://primer.dynamobim.org/  even though it won't be directly relevant to this application. Knowing the fundamentals will save you a lot of time on script development, particularly if you decide to try using Dynamo for more than just this workflow.

Specific to your workflow, you need a custom package called Data Shapes, it's a GUI package that will give you the check-box list functionality. Data Shapes is actively updated by its developer, and they have a blog with sample screenshots on how to use their nodes and what the expected output looks like: https://data-shapes.io/blog/