How To Get Elements in Revit API with FilteredElementCollector

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📝 Filtered Element Collector is the most used class in Revit API. We need to use it every time we want to get elements from our Revit project. After watching this video you will understand how to use this class to get your elements with Revit API + Python. It's not as complicated as it might look at the first glance.

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🎥Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:26 FilteredElementCollector Docs
03:39 Modify FEC to get other elements
04:06 Get Views
05:25 Get Elements in View
06:30 ElementMultiCategoryFilter
09:57 Outro

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Tags: #LearnRevitAPI #RevitAPI

[ErikFrits]

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[harley]

Love the explanation and how you delved a bit further into the API for things that aren't just on the surface like others do. Also thank you for touching on filters, it's definitely a broad topic but another perspective is always informative.

[melatubino]

Hi! I just bought the guide, and I find it amazing. When are you going to update it? I use Revit 2023. Thanks!

[anthonyugbewi]

Beautiful and smooth video… is there a discord community for pyrevit ? I ll love to join one, if no, do you mind to create one

[jakobwermelin]

Thanks Eric. I like the tempo of your videos.

[jedsanford]

This is super helpful! I went and made some collector functions based on this code and added them to my lib file I started. But you gotta let me know how to put a list in multiple lines like that when you are making you category list.

[jacr]

Great video. I have a question. How to set a value parameter from a host to elements that it contains? For example, from a beam to rebars. Thank you.

[zeinabmostafa]

Yes, please It would be Great if you create a video for filters Like BoundingBoxIntersectsFilter

[brunoCarneiroDis]

Hi, erik!

i have seen your tutorial and by the way i have learned a lot, thanks!

i have had some difficulties to understand the VARIABLES and i did not understand when you used active_view = doc.ActiveView. Do you know where i can learn more about it?

[tomaszwisniewski]

Great video, if you could make one's about filters it would be perfect, thank you Erik

[cobyiv]

I have been struggling with selecting elements in a given view that is both in the current model and in linked models. Does the filter element collector work for linked models as well?

[giancarloarciniegas]

Hello i would like to know if there is a way to install my plugin in a .exe file or a .msi file and not have to install pyrevit to add the extensions.
thank you very much for everything.

[smitbangare]

Hello, I am not getting OST_Walls on my autocomplete. Can you tell the reason?

[facelessone]

Is there any way to get this to work with a CAD link? I'm trying to get text from it.

[WietseStarsz]

Hey Erik, I really learned a lot from your videos! I am really stuck at the moment with using a doc-changed hook, it seems to be impossible to use transactions with it (edit a parameter). Maybe you have some knowledge about this?

[FelanaDiamondraRANDRIAMADISON]

Hey! i am new to revit api .. how to get all elements objects in revit? without filter

[martinelko]

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