Hi everyone, I am currently working on a python script in Dynamo to place families given an insertion point and work plane. My results so far have been promising, but my the script I’m using now has the tendency to sporadically place elements multiple times in the same place and I can’t work out wh…

Hey, It looks fine, so it’s about debugging… Which is probably to do with the data structures… You are only placing 1 family, so that’s not a problem, neither is your reference. So something in your other 2 lists is causing a duplicate. Probably a duplicate location from somewhere. I would tend t…

Could also be that you’re circumventing element binding, so if you runt he graph twice with the same input you’ll get duplicate instances.

@jacob.small That could very well be the problem. My debugging efforts have shown that the in- and outputs of the script are as expected. Is there a way to make my script respect the element binding?

Python script placing elements more than once

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jacob.small October 8, 2024, 9:53am 5

Check the linked post and my AU class from 2019 for what I know about Element Binding.

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Python script placing elements more than once

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