Randomize Curtain Wall panels

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Hi Everyone

Please could someone help rebuild what this user did to randomize his curtain wall panels?

I cant seem to get the correct nodes in the latest version of Dynamo to make this work.

Here is the link

http://bim.rootiers.it/node/37

it would be awesome. I am currently doing something similar by manually changing the grids and mullions on a curtain wall and it is super slow.

any help will as always be much appreciated!

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Hi @Dirk_Klein
In the video, the person uses visibily to ā€œhideā€ randomly selected panels. check out this topic, I think it will show you how to do that :

However, I donā€™t thing itā€™s the best way to randomize a curtain wall facade. I think it would be better to populate the curtain wall with different types of panels as shown in this topic:

John pierson was even nice enough to share his graph :slight_smile:

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Hi Mostafa

THANKS!

I ended up using this graph

http://dynamobim.org/forums/topic/randomize-types-in-divided-faces/

It Works Great i have a question though. What does this part mean? (see image Circled in red)

Iknow that it has something to do with picking out the steps to randomize. Iā€™d just like to understand the ā€˜wordingā€™ behind it.
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THANKS again. this literally save the user 2 weeks!

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@Dirk_Klein
this code block gives two outputs that will then be used as minimum an maximum values for the creation of a random list of numbers.

-0.5 is litterally -0.5 ā€¦
in x-0.6, x is the amount of elements coming out of your ā€œall elements of family typeā€ node.

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I have created this Dynamo Script to randomize the curtain wall panels within the curtain wall for your reference. Applied the Lunchbox node - FamilyInstance.SetType.

Hope this help!

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Here are another test of randomize the curtain panels, the curtain system of a mass also works on it.

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I cant find this FamilyInstance.SetType node. I downloaded Lunchbox, but there no this node.

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Sorry, I made a mistake, not LunchBox, the correct one is Clockwork for Dynamo 1.x

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Iā€™ve tried to run this graph and the FamilyInstance.SetType looks different to the one presented.
And yet somehow it doesnā€™t seem to be willing to workā€¦

Since I am fairly new to the game I canā€™t really get my head around this particular node.

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Just link Select Model Element to the import of Family Instance.SetType (familyInstance) will be fine.

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Hey all.
I am trying to make this script work for my needs. I keep getting a false return on ā€œSuccessā€ I believe it may have something to do with using non system panels. But not sure how to resolve this issue. If anyone has a suggestion?

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