DirectShape.ByGeometry Edits

[jacob.small]

I gave some input on the other thread - run with that and post your family and dyn attempts and we can try and sort you out there.

Place generic model family by select face

Do you have to use your family or could a new family work as well? Wondering if a ‘FamilyInstance.ByGeometry’ node from the springs package would work here. Not sure if you need to schedule things though. If you do need to use your specific family I would consider the following: Don’t make it so you have to click every face - do all faces of the beam at once by getting the beam geometry, exploding it, removing the two smallest area faces, and then discarding the face with a normal equal to t…