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The generators

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The generators

- [Instructor] The generator section of a generative design script is where geometry or elements are created to form a new potential solution within the study. So given a set of input data, the generators will generate something in the model, which can then be evaluated. I currently have the Revit and Dynamo exercise files open for this lesson, which is where we left off from in the last lesson. The only thing I've updated in our Dynamo file is I've renamed these sections so that they're a little bit more descriptive. We currently have a wall and some window data, along with two input sliders. Let's use these to create two generators. The first will generate points along the wall, which indicates the location that will place windows. The second will generate window volumes at these point to evaluate the size of the windows. I've already got the bones of this second generator with the script under this Generators…

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