I’m working alongside several Autodesk Research colleagues on a really large Dynamo graph. We’re mostly working in separate instances of the .DYN file – and focusing on different areas of it, as far as possible – and merging the changes together has been a task of which I’ve taken ownership.
At the time of writing, Dynamo doesn’t have decent support for multi-user graph editing, nor is its data storage tuned for source control mechanisms such as Git. All of which makes identifying differences between graphs and merging updated areas to be quite challenging.
One basic problem that we’ve had to deal with is copying and pasting sets of nodes between graphs. You can’t just copy & paste between multiple graphs open in Dynamo Studio, but there is a way to do it: you can select the nodes that are to be copied across in the source graph, right-click the workspace and select Create Custom Node (we won’t be keeping the node, so it doesn’t really matter what metadata you…