Hi everyone,
Doing a panel for fabrication purpose. It’s a perforated metal panel with 40mm margin and staggered circle pattern with opening percentage of 23, 35 and 51 % .
Quick question, can you do that with grasshopper and give a crisp edge ? Meaning the circle would stop at the edge and not go over/cross it ?
Oh, I didn’t notice the pattern was hexagonal.
as for the percentage, I calculated is based on a triangle cell
(on each triangle, you have half a hole, so the percentage is the half the hole are divided by the triangle area. and from that I find the triangle edge length.
Played around with the margin value and got this awesome looking panel.
One question though, I know that the circles would not sometimes meet the edge perfect , it meets on one side but not the other. Is it possible to set the values so that the holes will be perfectly inside the shape ?
yes, In my definition I regarded it as a ‘texture’ so didn’t bother to align it to the border (the same btw applies vertically, it’s just not visible because of the irregularity of the edge)
But it’s simple math. I bet you can do it by yourself. If you try and fail, I will help you!
(we don’t help lazy people here!)