Hello everyone, would love to learn from you to find out the best ways to parametrically model such semicircular facade, in which the radius can be set and the length of the panel as well from a given surface. To be able to follow the curve of any surface. In this case a detailed channels will need to be added to each of the panels, not sure if that will be needed within the script or after the fact.
My initial though was to extract the curve of the surface and subdivide it into points, that will be used to interpolate the curve. However if the amount of points will need to change it becomes more complex.
As the cylindrical elements are likely to be all the same size, a simple solution is to “divide distance” your path curve using the end-to-end distance of your module.
“Divide Distance” component create a sequence of points along your curve that have always the same chord distance.
Similar but different approach would be putting the circles center at the found points, but then it would require to cut glass cylinder each with different size, a mess.
For more granular control of the joining elements between the modules, you could use kangaroo…
thanks a lot. I appreciate it very much, will try it out! I also tried to create a wave that is a little more curtain like rather than cylindrical. not sure if its working.
I would like to know how I would go about dividing the curve in a repeating chord sequence, so like little ball, big ball, little ball, big ball, little ball…
Fantastic link. I like the suggestion of using Dash Pattern, though this will only work for 2 sizes… which would be perfect for the problem here if it worked with chord length.
