Simple list management question

#1

Hi All,

I have a list of lists, each element is a list of two points.

I just need to draw lines out of this data. So far I managed to do it but is such a convoluted way (using “List.TakeEveryNthItem”) that I think there must be a better way. Probably with a simple code node…

See screen cap. The original list is on the left; I flatten it, then extract first point / second point by means of two “List.TakeEveryNthItem” nodes.

Any suggestion is welcome,

thank you
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#2

So I guess you could transpose the list, like this.

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#3

Hi Giovanni,

This has been asked before. Jostein’s solution will work wonderfully but another option is to simply drive the list of point pairs through a “Line.ByBestFitThroughPoints” node:

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#4

Wow.

Exciting and disconcerting at the same time. There was no way I could have guessed neither one, although using Transpose makes quite a bit of sense now.

 

But the “FitThroughPoints” node… Genius! Using a list of two points, it simply returns the line through those tow points…

However, I would have never guessed that the node would have processed the list of lists the way it does… one list of two points at a time.

 

This is one of the main problems of Dynamo: there is no extensive, scientific, reference guide…

 

Thank you, awesome work,

Regards

 

gio