{"id":457066,"date":"2021-04-16T18:12:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/?p=457066"},"modified":"2021-04-16T18:25:18","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:25:18","slug":"revit-model-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/revit-model-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Current list of Revit model categories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we have a few new categories in the current Revit 2022, there is a small Dynamo script today with which you can export the model categories including the BuiltIn names and IDs. These are also used for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/classification-manager-for-revit\/\">Classification manager<\/a> or for the <a href=\"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/edit-revit-assembly-identifier\/\">Assembly identifier<\/a> used.<\/p>\n<p>The Dynamo script is actually very simple and uses the Clockwork package:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"457068\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/revit-model-categories\/read-categories-new_2021-04-16_06-18-58\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?fit=2472%2C774&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2472,774\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?fit=300%2C94&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?fit=750%2C235&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-457068\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?resize=750%2C235&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?resize=750%2C235&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?resize=300%2C94&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?resize=768%2C240&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?resize=1536%2C481&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?resize=2048%2C641&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?resize=1500%2C470&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?w=2472&amp;ssl=1 2472w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?w=2400&amp;ssl=1 2400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The result is an Excel file with three columns:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>BuiltIn Name (i.e. the name that Revit uses internally, e.g. OST_Walls)<\/li>\n<li>Category ID<\/li>\n<li>Visible (localized) name<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I ran the script once in German and once in English Revit to get both the English and the German designations. You can download both my list and the script here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/lv52hvx6k1retrq\/Revit-Categories-2022.xlsx?dl=0\">Revit-Categories-2022.xlsx<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/ds66mcbvfo8j9xw\/Kategorien-auslesen.dyn?dl=0\">Dynamo script<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since we once again have a few new categories in the current Revit 2022, today there is a small...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":457068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-457066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dynamo","8":"category-revit","9":"cs-entry","10":"cs-video-wrap"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bim-me-up.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Kategorien-auslesen-neu_2021-04-16_06-18-58.png?fit=2472%2C774&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2lEa7-1UU2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457066"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457069,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457066\/revisions\/457069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/457068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bim-me-up.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}