Hello, I am having issues numbering my surfaces in a better way than grasshopper does itself.
Currently this is the numbers.
And I would love for them to be sorted in a more “organized way”
Numbering Script.gh (133.6 KB)
scraped model.3dm (11.1 MB)
DISCLAMER: This script is heavy, so be ready to wait a little haha
I re-wrote the portion of your file that puts the notches in your shapes. The file now opens in ~3 seconds (was ~2 minutes).
In order to number the surfaces, you need to get them grouped and/or sorted in some meaningful way.
I sorted and grouped them by the Y-position of their centroids and then sorted them by angle (angles measured from group bounding box center to part bounding box center):
Combined branch numbers with angle of each part within the branch to make the labels:
Divided angles into 8 zones identified by letters to keep the labels short (limited space on parts for labels):
| Zone | Greater Than | Less Than Or Equal To |
|---|---|---|
| A | 0° | 45° |
| B | 45° | 90° |
| C | 90° | 135° |
| D | 135° | 180° |
| E | 180° | 225° |
| F | 225° | 270° |
| G | 270° | 315° |
| H | 315° | 360° |
OpenNest plug-in was used to make the text labels and determine their locations (I noticed you had OpenNest components in your file).
You didn’t ask about nesting, but I also added code using OpenNest to pack and nest the surfaces.
The OpenNest component produces overlapping shapes when the Rotations input is set to 16. I checked for problems with the curves or DataTrees but couldn’t find anything wrong. Different shapes overlap with different Seed inputs.
I left code in the file to check for collisions in the nested shapes.
Nesting produces no overlapping shapes with the Rotations input set to 8:
Numbering_Script_re.gh (506.3 KB)
All geometry internalized in GH file.
Nesting will not start until you change the Iterations input to a non-zero value or toggle the Run input to True. One nesting iteration takes ~2 minutes, five iterations takes ~5.5 minutes.
-Kevin
so rare to see someone uses pnc component, what a great job
Kevin… This is amazing! You added much more than I could ever ask!
Thank you!
I have one problem though, it seems like “InscribeCircle” is not a part of my opennest version, is there any way to get InscribeCircle?
I figured it out
