Getting the Name of a room object

[Iffat Mai]

As I was writing this message, I figured out the answer to my own question before I can post the question, so I will just share the solution with the group.

I'm using a simple python code to get room information.
The codes retrieves the room objects from the document, and using a simple print command, I can access the room number and area, but when it gets to room name, it tells me it can't find the attribute(Name), even though it is clearly listed as a parameter both in Revit API, as well as using python DIR() command.

If I call it using room.Name
then I get the error "AttributeError: Name"

If I call it using room.Parameter('Name")
then I get the error "TypeError: indexer# is not callable"

After trying to get to the names using all different ways, I finally got it to work
print room.get_Parameter('Name').AsString()

This is certainly something that is different from using C# or VB.net, where you can just use object.Name to get the name.
and I don't know why it has such a hard time getting the name out of a room object.

Iffat

[Daren Thomas]

Hello Iffat,

I ran into a similar problem with accessing the Floor.Name property
and wrote a small blog post about it:

http://darenatwork.blogspot.ch/2012/10/rps-script-to-print-list-of-floor-types_1719.html

I think you can try to do this too:

# get Room.Name property instead of the stupid "Attribute error" message
Element.Name.GetValue(your_room_object)

I have not got around to poking in the RevitAPI.dll yet, but I suspect
the way the Revit dll is produced (with Revit not being a C#
application) might be the reason for this - IronPython is getting some
IL that it doesn't quite understand and therefore needs to be told how
to retrieve the property. But this is just a wild guess on my part and
I will check into it if I find time...

Regards,
Daren

[Iffat Mai]

Hi Daren,
Perfect, the Element.Name.GetValue(object) works like a charm.
I tried it to get a family name and it works.

Thanks
Iffat

[Татьяна И]

Iffat, thank you for this. i'm just trying to do first steps in Revit Dynamo and could not solve the simullar problem.Thanks to that old post my problem is solved. Thanks a lot.

четверг, 11 октября 2012 г. в 01:40:04 UTC+4, iffa...@gmail.com:

[Katharine Fewings]

Hey I have a similar problem but I'm trying to get the name of the room that a family instance is in. Any suggestions? 

I tried:

family_instance.Space.Name 

As it was similar to:

family_instance.Location.Point 

(which produces the XYZ co-ordinate) 

but with Space.Name I'm getting: 

AttributeError: 'indexer#' object has no attribute 'Name' 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Alberto Detrell]

Hi everyone,

I was looking for an answer to this issue and found this group.

I get it using another way. To get the name of a room or an area, you can use the BuiltInParameter for Room Name.

As it could be used in many cases where the property. Name is only a write-only parameter like in this case.

areaName = user_Area.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.ROOM_NAME).AsString()

Let me know if it is working for you.

[David Koch]

@Alberto Detrell - Thank you for that! 

• room.get_Parameter('Name').AsString() did not work for me.
  
• Element.Name.GetValue(your_room_object) worked, but it returned the room name and number, with a space in between.
  
• room.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.ROOM_NAME).AsString() returned just the room name.
  
• room.get_Parameter(BuiltInParameter.ROOM_NUMBER).AsString() returned just the room number (which I do not need right now, but may in the future).