I’m trying to achieve a catenary structure from three curves which should be nested on each other. I have approximated my goal geometry by using three kangaroo solvers and replacing one anchor of the secondary and catenary curve with the highest point of the primary curve after running the solver and the same for the tertiary curve.
However what I really want is putting all three solvers into a loop to retrieve a livelike result where all curves are influencing each other (like in a real hanging chain model).
Can someone please help me with this? I’m not very experienced with anemone but I think I will need it in this case.
I also wasn’t able to find something similar in the forum…
You don’t need these multiple instances of the solver component, or extra looping like Anemone, this is all handled inside one solver.
Input the curves into the same solver, making sure they share a point where they need to join, and it will keep them connected and have the different curves influence each other like a real hanging chain network
actually I tried that before exept for the rebuild as polylines. And then I was thinking too complicated as I always tend to do.
Thanks for the fast response and the solution!!
I was playing around with @DanielPiker’s model (included below) and thinking about the GH Cat(Catenary) component so created this model to mimic Daniel’s results. There are five curves defined between the four corner points and the two points defined by MD Sliders and ‘Z’ sliders.
Visual inspection suggests that the droopy lime-green curve might correspond to the slider with the longest length value, and that is correct. I guess the lengths of the five catenary curves are a function of how many points (“hanging weights”) are on each one?
