Parametrically position 3 d objects

Hello this is a beginner’s question. How to parametrically position 3 d objects to form a sculpture? For example replacing the sides of a Platonic solid with characters from daz3d studio? Thank you (My english is poor sorry i m french speaking)

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Hi Guy - this would be a job for Grasshopper I would say.

-Pascal

Thank you Pascal… I can’t find tutorial on this but unfortunately i thing i m use wrong words (because english very poor) in the search engine … have a nice day