Generating Gridshell

Grasshopper
1

Hello everyone!

I’m looking for some help generating a gridshell from a mesh surface. To give you an idea of what I’m aiming for, here’s my inspiration – I’d like to wrap it around an existing massing:

image
image1157×1349 133 KB

Here’s the mesh I have, which came from a Kangaroo simulation:

image
image1551×1006 57.2 KB

And this is the kind of gridshell I’d like to create, but I haven’t figured out how:

image
image830×513 124 KB

image
image813×756 11.5 KB

I’m using the “Stripper” plugin to sort the mesh faces into horizontal and vertical strips, which might be helpful:

image
image1552×1006 61.2 KB

Any guidance or suggestions on how to generate this gridshell would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you!

Gridshell Question.gh (23.3 KB)

2

Would Paneling tools help? Paneling tools gives a logical index across the faces also.

https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/panelingtools-rhino-and-grasshopper

1 Like
3

Hello Scott, thank you for your suggestion. Generating the pattern I’m looking for would definitely be more straightforward on a surface-based massing. I’ve even found tutorials that demonstrate that approach successfully:

Unfortunately, my massing can’t be a surface because it’s a mesh derived from a SubD multipipe. Since a surface is fundamentally 2D geometry defined by a U and V grid, paneling works better on surfaces, but that option isn’t available to me.

I wonder if there’s a way to apply a similar approach to a sorted mesh. Do you have any thoughts on this?