I am trying to sort a series of families in counter clockwise order.
I have found a “sort points as Perimeter” node in a package but the series gets screwed about when there is a step back.
I am looking for a better solution to sort the families along the floor slab edge Polycurve.
Any advice is appreciated!
Hi @dhughesJ3ZSS,
Have you tried this approach:
This method sorts the Points according to the parameter value of the polycurve.
So if a point’s “closest point on the curve” towards that point is near the start, it will be sorted in front of points near the end. Like this:
However this does not necessarily mean the points will be sorted counter-clockwise, just by their distance along the curve.
2021-05-26 SortPointsAccordingToCurveDistance.dyn (13.1 KB)
PS: maybe the list lacing needs some tweaking (because i didnt feel like creating the points and curves and testing it).
@Daan weave in the line direction node 
How do you mean Marcel?
It will tell you if it is clockwise or not, given the plane it is in, taking into account on what relative coordinates its in
Instead of a list.sort, an index of, and a list.indexof, perhaps try a List.SortByKey node?
I have tried the method you have provided with no luck. The key here is that I need them to be sorting in order as displayed in my screen shot.
For now I think I will just rename the unordered points and revisit this topic later.
I have found a “sort points by curve” node from Proving Grounds use to exist but it sounds like they have discontinued their dynamo services. bummer.
Can you provide a data set so we can illustrate how this is done? The method @Daan showed above has worked for me consistently for about 5 years now.
Sort_Example.rvt (3.7 MB)
Sort_Example.dyn (31.2 KB)
The help is very much appreciated
Rebuild the curves as PolyCurve.ByPoints and you will get a more accurate point closest to result. I think that is the step that is missing and causing problems.
There were a few issues I outlined here, with a fix for the graph as you provided it.
The connections are falling on top of eachother at the corners, which is throwing off the sorting. Building a polycurve by consecutive points (as @simon_murphy1 indicated) may resolve this. Alternatively using a shape which respects the corners cleanly. Would likely take a lot less time to draw that as a filled region that number these by hand.
