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BH.oM.Adapters.Revit.Requests.FilterFamilyByName

IRequest that filters Revit families by name. If the family name is left blank, all families will be filtered.

Class structure

Implemented interfaces and base types

The FilterFamilyByName is inheriting from the following base type(s) and implements the following interfaces:

Properties

Defining properties

The following properties are defined on the class

Name Type Description Quantity
FamilyName string Revit family name matching one displayed in Revit UI. Optional: if left blank, all families will be filtered. -
CaseSensitive bool If true: only perfect, case sensitive text match will be accepted. If false: capitals and small letters will be treated as equal. -

Derived properties

The following properties are defined as extension methods in one of the BHoM_Engines

Name Type Description Quantity Engine
Discipline Nullable<Discipline> Gets discipline enforced by the Request. If the result is different than defaultDiscipline and neither of two is Undefined, null is returned (the result discipline is conflicting with defaultDiscipline). - Revit_Engine
IFilterDescription string Returns a description of the filter represented by the given IRequest. - Revit_Engine

Code and Schema

C# implementation

C#
public class FilterFamilyByName : BH.oM.Data.Requests.IRequest, BH.oM.Base.IObject

Assembly: Revit_oM.dll

The C# class definition is available on github:

All history and changes of the class can be found by inspection the history.

JSON Schema implementation

The object is defined as a JSON schema. You can validate a JSON instance against this schema by reference. To do this, use the schema reference below in a validator like this one.

JSON Schema
{
 "$ref" : "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BHoM/BHoM_JSONSchema/develop/Revit_oM/Requests/FilterFamilyByName.json"
}

The JSON Schema is available on github here: