# Understanding placing families with coordinates

**URL:** <https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/understanding-placing-families-with-coordinates/52987>\
**Category:** Revit\
**Created:** [July 15, 2020, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/understanding-placing-families-with-coordinates/52987 "2020-07-15T08:52:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Garbage\_Collector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@Garbage\_Collector](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Garbage_Collector)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 8:52am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/understanding-placing-families-with-coordinates/52987/1 "2020-07-15T08:52:52Z")

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Hello all,

I am tinkering with placing a wall hosted family in a wall based on given coordinates. In this case i just pick a point on the face of selected wall because i want to get dynamo to place my family before making this script more complicated.(clash control with piping and placing voids on said points)

I dont understand why Dynamo does not place the family on the point. Can someone nudge me in the right direction?  
Edit: When i click on the ID in the watch node, Revit tells me there are no good views to show the family, when searching for a good view revit cant find any.

This is the script:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/b/3/b33ae51a6eccd0a393c133ac439fa58bd011684c.png)

As you can see, Dynamo shows a valid point on the wall

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/6/1/61f869887fe379086ea7407d41f88756d03a3497.png)

This is the family, it is wall hosted and uses the centerline of the walls

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/2/a/2a8139824384f77f7604dc5502406bf56445ab67.png)

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**Author:** ![Garbage\_Collector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@Garbage\_Collector](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Garbage_Collector)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/understanding-placing-families-with-coordinates/52987/2 "2020-07-15T09:04:27Z")

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I am now realising that a wall hosted family is not ideal for my end goal… Since i want to place families in multiple walls on any given coordinate.

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**Author:** ![\_Vijay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/forum.dynamobim.com/_vijay/32/91307_2.png) [@\_Vijay](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/_Vijay)\
**Post date:** [July 15, 2020, 10:52am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/understanding-placing-families-with-coordinates/52987/3 "2020-07-15T10:52:46Z")

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@Garbage_Collector, did you try with Spring Note. Hope it will do the job.  
 ![Host](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/dynamobim/original/3X/9/b/9b314aad2a8ae2682925bbeb110e2c309de9904c.png)

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**Author:** ![Garbage\_Collector](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@Garbage\_Collector](https://forum.dynamobim.com/u/Garbage_Collector)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2020, 6:43am UTC](https://forum.dynamobim.com/t/understanding-placing-families-with-coordinates/52987/4 "2020-07-16T06:43:47Z")

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thanks! that worked!