I have modelled walls for a simple room, with a beam above and below each of the wall panels. The beams were created as lines, and asigned rectangular cross sectionsand the wall panels were created as shell elements using the same cross section width as the beams.
Initially, when adjusting the deformation of the model, the beams would deform through the wall. However through watching this video on shells and beams, I was shown my mistake in failing to include the beam points in my mesh. Since following the instructions in the video mentioned previously, the model looks correct visually, however the assemble model component shows warning messages related to supports with overlapping degrees of freedom and adjusting deformation from zero leads to the model disappearing in the Rhino viewport.
I have attached my grasshopper script - If anyone is able to help me with this, I would appreciate it greatly.
A further issue is your 4 lines of support are divided for support points, but they share corner points. So you might have duplicates because of that. Use remove duplicate points.
Thank you for your reponse. Indeed, after flattening the element input and removing duplicate points, the problems with the model deformations were fixed. However, interestingly the assemble model component still warns of overlapping degrees of freedom.
In my previous message, I had used ‘remove duplicate points’ in my previous fix, as you suggested, however I hadn’t flattened the points input to this component. Correcting this has now eliminated the warning messages. Many thanks for your help.
