Hi, I am tring to create a script that will generate an aligned dimension between parallel lines from within a family. What i want to do first is to find out which of these 5 lines are parallel to each other. How would you go about on this? [20180222-01] [20180222-02]

You’re absolutely right, my bad. Considering this, let’s change the “keys” to be the vector’s angle with the X axis, as image below. Again, floating point error needs to be solved by rounding the angles obtained. [image] Apologies for the wrong method before.

Try to group them by their vectors using Line.Direction ?

Great! Line.Direction does it! Now, how would you group them? [20180222-03]

link your Element.Geometry node to the first input of GroupByFunction (“list”) and the Line.Direction node to the second (“func”). Dont link nothing to the Line.Direction node input, so it works as a function. In this image I can see that you Element.Geometry node’s lists are at Level3, so maybe yo…

It might happend that due to a floating point error, two exact same vector are not grouped together. Also, two lines can be paralled but their vectors opposite, so they will as well be grouped as different elements. One option is to group them by the rounded sum of the absolute value of their vect…

Would that work if you had lines in the shape of a square? Since adjacent lines should have the same value but not parallel.

I am now trying to group the vectors by dividing Vector.X / Vector.Y, and using rounded value of 2 decimals. Only I do not know how the GroupByFunction works :confused: I have the feeling this is the node i need but do not know how to set it up. EDIT: also thinking about List.Map or GroupByKey, b…

func input on GroupByFunction only accepts OOTB nodes, but not Code Blocks. Try using GroupByKey as on my example instead, being the keys input the result of you code block.

X, Y and Z components are from the line direction (vector), so they will be different from adjacent lines as long as they are not collinear. It is true that adjacent lines will have coincident start/end point, but this doesn’t have any effect on the grouping.

Thanks for your suggestions @alvpickmans . I tried it but got stuck at line length being also taken into account. So in the end there was no group bigger than 1. I fixed a workaround. Now I have the groups of parallel lines. Still would like to know how to do this using List.Map or GroupByKey or Gro…

Thank you @alvpickmans ! I got it. I’ve created a new topic for the next step of my goal: creating the shortest parallel lines between these parallel lines. If your interested, please have a look here: [image] Perpendicular line between two parallel lines Geometry I have …

Find which lines are parallel

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mrathnakar April 13, 2018, 4:32am 17

hello @salvatoredragotta

go with link…where i created the post and posted what i have done.

Thank you.

Regards

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