# Text From String duplicates multiple times

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/text-from-string-duplicates-multiple-times/73754>\
**Category:** Alias\
**Created:** [February 26, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/text-from-string-duplicates-multiple-times/73754 "2022-02-26T17:40:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/skot)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/text-from-string-duplicates-multiple-times/73754/1 "2022-02-26T17:40:12Z")

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Hello ,  
I tried to create Text from String using Text.fromstringoriginandScale node , while creating the output it duplicates multiple times .  
Could someone help me to understand why it duplicates

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/a/9/a99a8c0dc11f810f3ead27282939e0756d5caae5.png)

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**Author:** ![Elie.Trad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/elie.trad/32/110373_2.png) [@Elie.Trad](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Elie.Trad)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 7:49pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/text-from-string-duplicates-multiple-times/73754/2 "2022-02-26T19:49:22Z")

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@skot what happens if you set the Lacing to Auto?

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**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/skot)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/text-from-string-duplicates-multiple-times/73754/3 "2022-02-26T20:49:24Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/3/5/353667eb9a45e226f6318df74c3b7c04bac5df34.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/c/e/ceeb37cf9e00100af3b6ef2dc74d4beace845a40.png)

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**Author:** ![Daan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/daan/32/82246_2.png) [@Daan](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Daan)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/text-from-string-duplicates-multiple-times/73754/4 "2022-02-26T21:21:48Z")

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Hi @skot,

The node doesn’t actually create duplicates 🙂  
If you look closely at the output you can see that only Curves are created. These Curves represent the text you put into the “text”-input.

For example “1” is not being put out as a single object with this node, but as multiple Curves, possibly something like this (colors for illustration purposes):

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/4/e/4e918379e853b9e63ce123aaf73ed70530da984f.png)

In this case these curves are all straight lines, but for example with the 0 you probably get some elipses in there aswell. Then from these Curves you could work further to create, for example, surfaces per letter/ number.

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**Author:** ![jasonlkw](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/jasonlkw/32/191737_2.png) [@jasonlkw](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/jasonlkw)\
**Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/text-from-string-duplicates-multiple-times/73754/5 "2022-02-27T16:53:21Z")

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@Daan is correct.  
Also, try connecting those cluster of lines to Polycurves.FromCurves. It’ll return them back into a L2 list.  
If that’s your concern.