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# CapturedElementCategory

The category of the particular object or surface.

```
enum CapturedElementCategory
```

## Overview

A  [`CapturedRoomAttribute`](/documentation/RoomPlan/CapturedRoomAttribute) adopter’s [`parentCategory`](/documentation/RoomPlan/CapturedRoomAttribute/parentCategory) property is of this type.

## Topics

### Determining the category type

[`CapturedElementCategory.object(_:)`](/documentation/RoomPlan/CapturedElementCategory/object(_:))

A category that’s scoped to the captured object.

[`CapturedElementCategory.surface(_:)`](/documentation/RoomPlan/CapturedElementCategory/surface(_:))

A category that’s scoped to the captured surface.

### Creating a category

## Relationships

### Conforms To

[`Encodable`](/documentation/Swift/Encodable)

[`SendableMetatype`](/documentation/Swift/SendableMetatype)

[`Sendable`](/documentation/Swift/Sendable)

[`Equatable`](/documentation/Swift/Equatable)

[`Decodable`](/documentation/Swift/Decodable)

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