Model.hm_getduplicateelements

Model.hm_getduplicateelements(elements, outputCollection, options=0)

Returns a list of duplicate elements as a list of lists. The duplicate elements are determined per the options argument. The format of the returned values is a list of lists, sorted from lowest to highest ID. Each list corresponds to the duplicate elements at that “location”.

Parameters:

• elements (Collection) – The collection containing the element entities to consider for use for finding duplicates.

• outputCollection (Collection) – The collection containing the duplicated element entities to put on.

• options (int) – Currently unsupported. Must be set to 0.

Returns:

• hwReturnStatus - Status object

• HmQueryResultList - Result list object containing HmQueryResult objects with the following output data:

  • duplicateElements (EntityList)

Example

Find duplicates for the displayed elements and put all of them on output collection

import hm
import hm.entities as ent

model = hm.Model()

elems = hm.CollectionByDisplayed(model, ent.Element)
output = hm.Collection(model, ent.Element, populate=False)

_, resultlist = model.hm_getduplicateelements(elements=elems, outputCollection=output, options=0)

for result in resultlist:
    print("duplicateElements", result.duplicateElements)