Problem with adaptive component placement

Good morning, I’m trying to use this family. It has two placement points and another eight manipulation points. I’m trying to place it along a path, but Dynamo tells me it has argument issues. I removed the nulls, but it still doesn’t seem to work.

Adattive.rfa (488 KB)

Is the adaptive component 2 point based?

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There is the two placement point

I can make it work with only one placement point, and feed it several points in a list. How to make it work with several placement points per instance, might have something to do with the list structure of the points. others might have a clue on that.

Hey, made it work. As i suspected, you need to arrange your points in sub-lists. I’ve shown it with only two points, a and b. Which you have.

But something is wrong with your family,
i “fixed” it by deleting all the reference points, and leaving only two placement points behind…..

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Do you think there is a method to filter placement points, should there be?

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i just found out, that if you turn off the “adaptive” property of all the reference points, the family works!

Hi @Marcel_Rijsmus with filter, do you mean couple them up ?, i like do as here but many ways i think…PS havent tried the family :wink: :wink:

Thanks a lot, I thought that to create the family I just had to insert the placement points

hi @LuisBurgosNTI

If your family uses adaptive points and shape handle points, the built-in Dynamo node will not work. Instead, use the node from the Brimohareb_XXXX package.

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Thank, i did my job. 1.5 km of tunnel

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Great could you share the graph ? so it could help other as well ?

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Yeah sharing is caring (community etiquette)

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gave it a try. not too complicated, really; some list management would remove the last sub-list, which is just a single point.

place_adaptive_along_divided_path.7z (619.9 KB)

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Ok, now for the challenging bit…

Make the adaptive component place parametrically on a non-static curve. Said another way, make it so the family intelligently adjusts it’s placement to the base curve.

@jacob.small
Yeah, noted that. The parametric binding that comes with the standard “repeat” command…..is not working with Dynamo.
Can we conclude, that the whole Conceptual Mass modeling has been corrupted since Project Vasari?
Okay, too old for this shit. We’ll go Dynamo all the way from now.

No - it’s doable for this workflow and others. I’ll try and post a sample /code snippet later this week unless someone beats me to it.

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Here is a family I did some time ago before I knew what dynamo was…

@jacob.small Are you mean place adaptive points to be hosted by curve?

not sure if it the best way but i would try something here if in project document…with a 2 point adaptive