vcComponent.clone(0) method

Component Modeling
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Hi,

inside the OnRun() of a PythonScript i need to duplicate a vcComponent the I use .clone(0) method.
During this when simulation run no cloned component is generated and I receive this message:

“Component creation is not allowed in this context”

Can someone help me to understand the reason of this error message?

Thanks

Luciano

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Cloning is not allowed, but you are allowed to use vcApplication().createComponent(). I don’t remember the exact reason why, but something to do with saving memory without affecting performance and avoid issues where cloned geometry has to be shared by default.