Sphere into volume

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Packing spheres in volume of shape

For a rough approximation you can use the volume fraction approach Ethan gives above. The actual number of spheres would generally be less than predicted by this though, depending on their size relative to the volume, its shape, and how they are physically put in there are these ball-bearings pouring into a hopper, oranges being carefully placed by hand…? For a physics approach you can try this: FillVolumeWithSpheres.gh (22.4 KB) It uses a script which will ask for a reference assembly locat…