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[Ayden_Pulling]

Hello, I am just trying to understand how much of a use case I can justify with grasshopper.

I have created some fairly complex custom components which are all bound within tekla to workplanes and are adjusted by increasing the distance between the workplanes, within the customcomponent I have allocated names to the parameters, is there a way for me to link to those parameters via grasshopper and adjust them using grasshopper?

For exampled: A custom component spaces two beams x distance away from eachother via the use of a workplane on the centreline of each beam and is controlled within a custom component dialog box using the parameter Spacing. Could grasshopper link to that parameter and input data using a number slider?

[sebastian.lindholm]

Hi Ayden,

You can control all the component variables of your custom component by using their Name (not the label).

To control the value with a slider, use the Construct UDA component:

Does this covers your use case?

Cheers,

-b

[Ayden_Pulling]

yes thankyou very much! How would this cope with multiple instances of the same component with different spacing values required? as the model object selected in grasshopper is only linked to one object?

[sebastian.lindholm]

Just provide more spacing attributes in a list, that matches the length of your input object lists.

E.g. this would insert 4 connections with different attributes for each column-beam pair:

-b