@jacob.small thanks for the clarification.
I initially tried this by placing into a code block but it does not run properly on my machine.
I think I have updated the core to Dynamo to the latest.
DO you mind checking on your machine if everything runs appropriately??
Best regards
It worked fine for me after addressing a warning stemming from copy-paste formatting issues…
Perhaps you have a package installed which has generated a namespace conflict? This resolves some of the more common ones which have been introduced of late. If you’re seeing a different result post a screenshot showing the warning.
The code:
def populateRectangles (srf,count) //start the definition
{
rectangles = [Imperative] //force impetrative code
{
//start the attempts at 0;
attempts = 0;
//an empty list for the results;
results = [];
while (DSCore.List.Count(results) < count && attempts < 10) //loop the below while we have less squares than desired or we have tried less than 10 times
{
// add one to the attempt count to ensure we don't get in an infinite loop;
attempts = attempts +1;
// generate a random coordinate system for the total count
csSet =
Surface.CoordinateSystemAtParameter(
srf,
Math.RandomList(count),
Math.RandomList(count)
);
// generate a random rectangle for the total count
rects =
Rectangle.ByWidthLength(
Math.RandomList(count/2),
Math.RandomList(count/2)
);
//patch the rectangle into a surface and set it into position at the coordiante sytsesm
rects =
Surface.ByPatch(
Autodesk.Geometry.Transform(
rects,
csSet
)
);
//join the new rectangles to the list of resutls
rects = DSCore.List.Join([results, rects]);
//an empty list to hold the results
set = [];
//for every item in the list of rectangles perform the loop
for (i in 0..DSCore.List.Count(rects))
{
//set is equal to
set =
//if the nth rectangle doesn't interssect a rectangle in the set already
List.AllFalse(Autodesk.Geometry.DoesIntersect(rects[i],set))?
//the rectangle added to the end of the set
DSCore.List.Join([set,rects[i]]):
//otherwise the existing set
set;
};
// set the results to the set
results = set;
};
//return the results from the rectangles code
return = results;
};
// flatten the list of rectangles after intersecting with the surface, ensuring a flat list and that all rectangles are in the original surface
rectSet = DSCore.List.Flatten(Autodesk.Geometry.Intersect(rectangles, srf),-1);
//get the count of rectangles from the start of the list, incase we asked for 10 but had 12 due to two loops, and clean any null values out incase we had 9 but asked for 10
rects = List.Clean(rectSet[0..count-1],false);
//return the rectangles list
return = rects;
};```Hey @jacob.small I wanted to thank you for the updated code it seems to have no issues but when running I
Thanks in advance.
My guess is this is a namespace conflict.
Put each of the lines into a new code block (not in a definition) and see if any of them complain about a class not existing or having multiple name spaces.
