Beam connection with booleans

[Roy_Wijnen]

Hello,

So for a school assignment I made a beam structure where I am trying to make a connection with the use of a Boolean (Solid difference node). The beams are made, after that I make boxes that can act as voids and make them cut the beams. However for some reason it doesn’t work. I tried flattening the Boolean input but still I get some strange results. The goal that I am trying to achieve is illustrated in the image below.
If you have any solutions please let me know.

Thanks,

Roy

Main assignment script 26-03-2023.gh (28.6 KB)
Test file 26-03-2023.3dm (65.8 KB)

[Joseph_Oster]

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The extremely long delay (2+ minutes) to render the model bothered me so I dug back into it with the intention of cutting the slots BEFORE extruding the contour surfaces, thus avoiding the painfully long SDiff (two of them, ~1 minute each!). I didn’t get that far yet, though still like the idea. In the process, I managed to break the model several times and can see how easily things can go wrong. I’ve put Humpty Dumpty back together again, still using SDiff but substantially faster than befor…

[Roy_Wijnen]

Thank you, I didn’t find these topics. Thanks for pointing them out! I will look into it

[Roy_Wijnen]

Oke so I tried making the boolean bigger than the form that it has to cut and it works for one of the directions. For the other direction Grasshopper seems to merge the boolean and the beam form together into one form. I cannot find the solution. Has anyone struggled with this?

Main assignment script 26-03-2023.gh (21.9 KB)