# Placing Detail Items on a view for a "Library"

**URL:** https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/placing-detail-items-on-a-view-for-a-library/36055
**Category:** Revit
**Tags:** revit, dynamo
**Created:** [May 16, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/placing-detail-items-on-a-view-for-a-library/36055 "2019-05-16T11:15:01Z")
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### Author: ![craig\_SW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@craig\_SW](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/craig_SW)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/placing-detail-items-on-a-view-for-a-library/36055/1 "2019-05-16T11:15:01Z")

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Dear Hivemind,

I’m in the process of capturing detail components/items from a project to add to our studio library. What could be useful is to automatically place the components (even better with a tag showing their type name) evenly on an A0 sheet for visually checking the ones we want to keep and transfer into our libraries.

Is there a way to do with Dynamo?

Thx.

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### Author: ![khuzaimah.ElecEng](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/khuzaimah.eleceng/32/92768_2.png) [@khuzaimah.ElecEng](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/khuzaimah.ElecEng)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/placing-detail-items-on-a-view-for-a-library/36055/2 "2019-05-16T11:34:03Z")

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this may help you

> [@Place Detail Items by points](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/place-detail-items-by-points/12862/7):
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> Hi, I made a list of points that equals the number of items to be placed. I also switched the lacing to ‘longest’ on the ‘FamilyInstance.ByPointInView’. [Place%20detail%20elements%20on%20view]

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### Author: ![craig\_SW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@craig\_SW](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/craig_SW)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 11:36am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/placing-detail-items-on-a-view-for-a-library/36055/3 "2019-05-16T11:36:00Z")

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Great stuff. Thanks very much!

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### Author: ![craig\_SW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@craig\_SW](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/craig_SW)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/placing-detail-items-on-a-view-for-a-library/36055/4 "2019-05-16T15:32:35Z")

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It works. But runs everything in a line. Is there a simple way to have them fall into place on a grid?