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Building Coder: Changing the Type of Many Instances

August 29, 2011, 12:50 PM

Did you ever run into a performance problem changing the type of a large number of family instances? Well, is you use the Element Symbol property or ChangeTypeId method to change them one by one, that may trigger a regeneration...

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