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Is there a way to randomly instance parts over a surface?
ron_moreland
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I want to scatter spheres over a freeform surface. Is there a featurescript to do this?
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We intentionally don't provide true randomness in FeatureScript. If we did, your spheres would regenerate in a different place every time and lots of downstream features would probably break due to references changing in unpredictable ways.
Instead, you can use this function that Ilya wrote:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/4086/pseudo-random-number-generator
It takes a "seed" that you could take as a parameter into your feature. That way, when you change the seed, the spheres change position, but every time it regenerates with the same seed, it regenerates the same way.