Building Coder: Retrieving Lines Within a Family Instance

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Building Coder: Retrieving Lines Within a Family Instance

August 23, 2011, 09:21 AM

Here is a basic query on how to obtain geometrical objects from a family instance answered by my colleague Saikat Bhattacharya. We have looked at more complex geometry retrieval in the past, so let's look at this simple case now:...

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