Architectural tile (need help!)

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I have been working on a grasshopper definition to build architectural paneling/tiles that stick to the surface of a simple structure. So far I’ve been able to create something that works pretty well, but it’s gotten very slow and inefficient. I’ve had to use a huge amount of nodes to get it to work and would have to copy/paste a lot of them in order to make tiles on all of the surfaces of the structure.

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My hope is that some of you on this forum might be able to give me advice on how to simplify/reduce the script to make it visually easier to understand and to make it run faster. maybe there’s a component I didn’t use that could do what I need to do better. I appreciate any help i can get!

Here’s how ugly the script is so far:

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and here’s the file (I have internalized data on the geometry parameters to make it easier to view) : architectural_tile.gh (2.8 MB)

thanks evereyone!

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great solution, I didn’t even know about a few of these components, like the Entwine component. I can see now I had a ton of unnecessary stuff in there. thanks for the help!

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could you post the gh file? I am having trouble reproducing the same results

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architectural_tile.gh (1.2 MB)

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