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Revit - Look for missing numbers in a sequence such as door schedule or sheet list using Dynamo

Abdul Shaikh • 24 September 2022

Revit - Look for missing numbers in a sequence using Dynamo

 Often, it is required that there are no missing numbers between a sequence of numbers for door / window schedule or sheet numbers. This script is developed with the intention of finding missing numbers from a list of numbers. It is fairly high-level and work for many revit elements including doors / windows and sheets. Via dynamo player: users are required to input the category they need reporting and the parameter is to be input as a 'string'.


The script ignores alphabets if run on a list of alpha-numeric characters. For example if this is run on a list containing values A101, A103 and A105 - it will return 102 and 104 as missing numbers. This script works on sequence of leading zero numbers such as 001 and B001. 

The final report is shown in form of a revit dialog box. If no missing numbers are found in a process, it shows a message "No Missing Numbers here!"

Due to a possibility that missing numbers found could be in a large range - there is a in-built function which reports that the number is too huge in case the result is more than 3000 numbers. In tahat case the popup says "That nearly crashed revit! More than 3000 numbers here!"

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