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Our investigation focuses on the role of symmetry in the system, particularly highlighting how the interplay between the harmonic confinement and the barrier shape governs the generation and evolution of multi-soliton states. Employing a reduction of the 3D Gross\u2013Pitaevskii equation to lower-dimensional regimes, we analyze the behavior of dark solitons in 2D and 1D configurations using, for the former, exact solutions constructed from the Hirota\u2019s bilinear formalism. We observe that the number of generated solitons exhibits a plateau-like dependence on the height of the potential barrier, reflecting the system\u2019s symmetry and nonlinearity. Furthermore, we break the central symmetry by translating the barrier, leading to asymmetrical soliton patterns and novel dynamical behaviors. 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