First time I’ve used Passthrough, am I not understanding how it should be used? ViewSection works if I hard code the head & tail pionts, and _Pick Points behaves as expected when it’s alone in the graph, but when I try to pick the points for head and tail the dictionary is returning an empty list. So, it feels like it should be getting the 2 points first, but the whole graph is done running and it never asks for those inputs.
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Are you closing between runs? You don’t have a toggle for the Pick Points reset so it’s only going to run once.
And to answer your question specifically about the Passthrough node… it doesn’t look like it’s doing anything. A passthrough or wait node is specifically about forcing a node to execute once another piece of data exists. In your case you’re saying “I need to pass my list of DraftingViews but not until the Pick Points node has fully completed executing.” The Pick Points process has no affect on what your list of DraftingViews looks like, so there’s no reason to use the passthrough node there. You also pass the Pick Points output and the passthrough output on to the next node, which doesn’t make sense either. The code block can’t run until it has the Pick Points output but the passthrough is also waiting on Pick Points. It’s redundant at that point.
From the looks of it you’re dealing with a different issue (possibly the run issue I mentioned at the beginning). A passthrough node doesn’t seem necessary here. The ViewSection node requires head and tail point inputs that come from the Pick Points node anyway. It can’t run until those points exist.
@Nick_Boyts good catch, I thought the default was true,
but I’m still getting an empty list of points, but not until I add the View.Section... node
The Reset input is a toggle, not a selection. Switching between true and false “updates” the node and forces it to rerun. It doesn’t mean that you set the node to Reset = true and will automatically reset every time.
What do you mean by “not until I add the View.Section... node”? Are you adding the node after you’ve run Pick Points? Close out of the graph, open in Manual mode, and don’t run it until you have everything setup. If Pick Points isn’t returning points at any time then that’s one issue. If the points “disappear” at some point then it’s something else, possibly a transaction issue.
