Hello, I got a challenge to arrange the maximum number of housing units in a given site boundary. I generate the different modules and used Open Nest to arrange them within the boundary, but I wish to find a way to give some guidance for the nesting. Maybe some combination of aggregations with some rules (like Wasp), combined with optimization of mesting.
Any ideas of any solution for that?
Cheers.
Have you tried the plugin Group Nesting ?
I wanted, but the sheet input is by dimensions, not a boundary, which don’t serve the situation…
You can type dimensions to create the boundary, for example using the component Rectangle,
CreateBoundary.gh (11.5 KB)
CreateBoundary_2023Jun24a.gh (8.5 KB)
I believe this doesn’t address the real issue, which is the “given site boundary” is not a rectangle? Without any geometry supplied, it’s impossible to know for sure. OpenNest works with non-rectangular “Sheets” though, so this really isn’t that hard.
Yes, according what we know, we can only provide so much reference 
Hi, thanks guys for your replies. Sorry for the lack of info. So - site boundaries in architecture can be any shape - it is a plot of land, so it is never a perfect square.
Imagine that now I have a few modules of clusters of houses (can be represented by a rectangle with, let’s say, 12m depth and different widths- 28,16,10 m), and I want to maximize the number of units in the plot. With Open nest I do not have a way to control the distribution, or give some rules on how to populate it. I wonder if there are any tools or ways to do so… Wasp? Monoceros?
Your verbose text description is not even close to posting actual geometry!!
Not true. Nothing you’ve said so far rules out OpenNest as far as I’m concerned.
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