Hi everyone, I’ve been playing around trying to use Dynamo to place Mechanical Families. I’ve tried the clockwork and archi-lab node ‘FamilyInstance.ByPointInView’ and similar, but can only get this to work with detail items, whenever I select a mechanical family I get nothing. I’ve read as much a…

Hi Kulkul, Thanks for the link, that’s pretty useful. However I’m stuck at a stage before that. I can only place certain families using this node, specifically I can’t place Mechanical Equipment. Has anyone succeeded doing that? Thanks, Liam

@Liam_Alsop What are you trying to place? It would be better if you can show us entire graph of your work or drop some files here. It works from my side. I placed mechanical equipment and it is placing. [image]

Sorry, I tried adding screenshots and was limited to just 1 per post. In this instance I’m trying to place a fan family, yesterday I was trying with a FCU family. [image] When I try with other objects, in this case a detail item, it works: [image] It’s very hit and miss, of all of the families…

Which version of Dynamo your using?

download and install latest dynamo version 1.2 from here http://dynamobim.org/download/ and try my above solution Using Dynamo to place Mechanical Families

Ok, will do, downloading it now. I currently get this warning running your solution (in 1.1), regardless of the family I use, and whether or not the point coordinates are connected up. [image]

Still nothing: [image] The lower clode block runs, but still only for a few families, not all [image]

Using Dynamo to place Mechanical Families

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Kulkul October 24, 2016, 4:21pm 2

Hi @Liam_Alsop

Place new family instance each run

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