Dynamo Office Hours: Taming the (Dynamo) Chaos

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Do your graphs look like jumbled spaghetti? A little messy? Need some organizational love?

Come join @jacob.small and @solamour as we explore how you can tame the chaos of a large, unwieldy monster graph! We will take a Dynamo graph that has lots of copy-paste on node blocks, no annotation, and nodes and wires all over the place and take you on a journey of how to “fix” it, by diving into tools such as Zoom States and the Graph Node Manager, exploring data errors and error handling and exploring options on how to make the graph better through things such as pre-filtering and only taking information from the well once. We will leverage some thoughts from special guest @olliegreen on his best practices to do so and will end up with a beautifully organized and easy-to-understand Dynamo graph!

Sign up link: Dynamo Office Hours: Taming the (Dynamo) Chaos - Autodesk Community

  • When: Thursday, 6th July 2023, at 1pm EST :date:
  • Where: Zoom Session :earth_asia:
  • Who: All of you hopefully! :person_cartwheeling:

If you have missed any of the previous sessions and wanted to check them out, then please go look at:

Forum Post on all previous sessions:

Youtube Channel for all Sessions:
Link to Playlist here

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As always, look forward to this.
Will be tough to attend to this with all orienteering competitions out there during summer times but will watch the recordings from youtube!

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This session is on tomorrow, Thursday 6th July at 1PM EST … So come unjumble some spaghetti with us! :spaghetti: :art:

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Is there going to be a recording? Because of the mayor timezone difference I’m not able to attend… :frowning:

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@Laura_BIMChick :100: %! We always record these sessions and they are posted onto our Youtube channel - and curated into a catalogue here on the Forums. :mortar_board: :ledger:

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This was really great!!

One of the features what I didn’t know about is that we can copy the error messages from Graph Node Manager into clipboard, csv or a screenshot. If we always have this as a mandatory thing to do here at the forum, it will save a lot of time to find and solve errors.

And also the new features with the wires (didn’t know about the Right click on wires and on Node output)

Good work!!

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Glad you like them Patrick! There’s lots of things in Dynamo that we need to do a better job at surfacing such as this :slight_smile: The Office Hours are a step in that direction.

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