# Place generic models adaptive by excel coordinates and family type **URL:** \ **Category:** Revit\ **Tags:** revit, excel, dynamo\ **Created:** [September 7, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851 "2020-09-07T07:29:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ftotaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@ftotaro](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ftotaro)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:29am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851/1 "2020-09-07T07:29:15Z")
Hello there! I’m new on making dynamo scripts so i’m learning from here and from several things around the websites. I need to place a generic model adaptive in specific locations according to x, y, z coordinates coming from an excel file. This first part works. I want to make it more stronger and specifically place generic model by type (there are 3 different types) according always to excel file (column 8). Can anybody help me telling what are my mistakes? Thanks a lot! ![script](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/6/4/641e91e4f790a552c0cbbf9c5cc045bf61537317.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ftotaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@ftotaro](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ftotaro)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851/2 "2020-09-07T07:30:44Z")
And the excel file: ![excel](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/2/8/28f6c49dee76cb0d9dbc4cc6f329dec86f6e43b3.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ingenieroahmad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/ingenieroahmad/32/72992_2.png) [@ingenieroahmad](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ingenieroahmad)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:32am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851/3 "2020-09-07T07:32:59Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/2/0/201a693e4cb7c23ac7034e345830bbe46d705c39.jpeg) You feed type name input with integer ??? ---
**Author:** ![ftotaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@ftotaro](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ftotaro)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:35am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851/4 "2020-09-07T07:35:08Z")
I guess not. What should be the “filter” between the two of them? ---
**Author:** ![ingenieroahmad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/ingenieroahmad/32/72992_2.png) [@ingenieroahmad](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ingenieroahmad)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851/5 "2020-09-07T07:38:51Z")
![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/5/1/51fa4d075741c2244435069e39682c016d870ed2.png) Have alook on the above shot for the proper data type to be used. ---
**Author:** ![ftotaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@ftotaro](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ftotaro)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 7:53am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851/6 "2020-09-07T07:53:04Z")
Thank you @ingenieroahmad , this is clear. What im asking now is that i lost the connection with the 8th column of the excel file. Am I wrong? ---
**Author:** ![jwroelofs](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jwroelofs/32/55712_2.png) [@jwroelofs](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jwroelofs)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 8:55am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851/7 "2020-09-07T08:55:25Z")
May be you to read the column as string? ---
**Author:** ![ftotaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@ftotaro](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/ftotaro)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2020, 9:34am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-generic-models-adaptive-by-excel-coordinates-and-family-type/54851/8 "2020-09-07T09:34:45Z")
@jwroelofs yes, to place the family at the x,y,z, locations and changing the different family type by the excel column