I have a script that places a mech equip family over vertical pipes going thru a specific level. It places the family at the floor level (z) at the pipe location (x,y). It will not place a family if there is already a family at that location. In scenarios when some pipe have families on them and so…

Read this. [image] Element Binding in Revit Share Element binding is the name given to the process which Dynamo manage to ‘track’ the items created in non-Dynamo files. In this case, I’m going to focus entirely on element binding as it refers to Dynamo for Revit, but the m…

Update: If I close and re-open the script before re-running it, then it works fine. Hmm. Maybe that’s the “solution”. If you need to re-run the script, close it and re-open it. Update #2: It’s doing it again. Closing and re-opening the script doesn’t seem to be the solution. :frowning:

@SeanP is right. This is bindings at play. The bindings in this dyn: [image] For more in depth info feel free to sign up for my AU course on the topic - the Thursday showing had some openings last I checked.

Just Undo in Revit to get the deleted Elements and Run the Script again for the new one!

You might need to cut & past at same place for the placed family before placing new one … or you might use dynamo package to bake old elements to not to be deleted.

IMO that is a very bad experience and prone to user error - one forgotten undo won’t show for quite some time. Best to work with the system and clear the existing bindings, then use Dynamo Player on future runs - no bindings are introduced there.

Dude how to Clear the bindings?

Check the link which @SeanP posted for specifics, but you can either: Run the graph in a new file with the node which creates the elements unwired so it produces a null, then re-wire it and save the graph (but don’t run it). Open the dyn in a text editor, and search for “Bindings:”, and clear out …

Thank you SeanP. I followed JacobSmall’s suggestion (“run the graph in a new file with the node which creates the elements unwired”) Now the script works perfectly. However if I run it a second time in the same Dynamo session, the issue will reoccur. So it looks like if you want to run it again, yo…

Jacob, your AU class looks great. I’m interested in all of the Learning Objectives. Unfortunately I won’t be there this year - hopefully you’ll post a handout on the class page? I’ll watch for that…

Handout was already uploaded, but I don’t think non-registered users can get to it until after AU, which gives me the opportunity to change my mind and remove my foot from my mouth before I let the world have the handout. :wink: I’ll try to provide that and whatever else may be needed after AU - le…

While placing family instances, it deletes one instance already placed

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SeanP October 29, 2019, 9:41pm 3

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While placing family instances, it deletes one instance already placed

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