Get Original Geometry of family instance using python script

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Hi all users in this forum!
I want to extract original geometry of family instance before joins, cut etc. is applied.
I tried to use method Familyinstance.GetOriginalGeometry() but i got a type error like this " GetOriginalGeometry() takes exactly 1 argument (0 given)" . I don’t know what exactly 1 argument is?
Can you help me? Please see a below picture to see what i mean.
Thanks a lot.

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Check these:
http://www.revitapidocs.com/2015/d28a0880-bff8-1acc-ddf1-ce3205f2e8b3.htm
http://www.revitapidocs.com/2015/64e4d76d-5cd4-6099-fbab-8f0fc6ab64b0.htm
The argument is Options()
Haven’t tested, but I think it will be something like this:

options=Options()
options.View = doc.ActiveView
options.OtherOptions = other values

instance.GetOriginalGeometry(options)

Make sure you import
from Autodesk.Revit.DB import Options

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