Hello,
I haven’t found what I’m looking for in search engines so I’m back to pick your collective brains -thanks in advance for any help.
My search engine taught modeling in GH feels more like a cave painting as opposed to good BIM every time I use a manual input to define a parameter. One of my favorite aspects of parametric modeling is the self correcting/updating nature of the format.
I can link a specific example code if needed but was more interested in resource recommendations if available -or hey do this instead of that general ideas.
One example I came across recently was to define the surface area (non continuous) of a large object with holes (building insulation takeoff check, less the openings). I did this by defining a path, swept the shape (of 2" insulation) to produce a surface then cut out the windows which were handled elsewhere in the model. I got my desired shape (ref below) and now want to quantify the square footage. I say to myself well if I deconstruct the brep that has now been cut up I can get a straight forward result. But in doing so I had to individually isolate every face I wanted to calculate. After that it was just some math notes and simple enough, got the answer I was searching for, done. However, I can’t say I’m a fan of how I got to the answer.
I had a thought that maybe I was approaching it wrong in the first place and adding complexity by sweeping a rectangular shape if all I needed was to follow the same procedure with a line segment there would be no data to omit and therefore no need to isolate individual faces, etc.
Anyways, if you have any tips I’m all ears. This example was part of a broader scope so not modeled to server a single take off but in general. Some examples I’ve picked up are easily isolating the first and last part of a data set with 0,-1 inputs.
