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Renaming families with Dynamo

Renaming families with Dynamo

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Renaming families with Dynamo

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- In this tip I want to talk about how you can use Dynamo to rename a bunch of families. Now, I was working on this recently, and I happened to stumble on this blog post from a friend of mine who runs a company called EvolveLAB. So Bill posted this blog post here back in March, and it was exactly the same idea, so I thought well, that's great, I'll just show Bill's post here. So as you can see, he's got the graph all scripted out here, and some details on what each of the nodes are. And this is essentially the same graph that I'm gonna build with you here right now, so you can read through the post if you like, or you can just follow along with me here directly. But, you know, I contacted Bill, and I said, "Hey, great minds think alike. "We're both trying to use Dynamo to do some batch renaming." So let's talk about the goal here, so you know, I've got this file open, and I've got several items in this file that are…

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