Hello everyone, I feel I may be in over my head as a Grasshopper beginner.
My goal is to automate the layout of studs in a wall system. For starters, I need to know where a wall starts and ends, as well as where hosted elements start and end along the wall curve.
I suspect I might access this information with the following
I am a bit stuck now, because I do not know how to
a) create planes on the face outputs of the Breps,
b) correspond the Breps with their host and finally
c) filter out any planes which are not perpendicular to the host wall’s location curve, so that when I split a wall’s location curve, it is indeed split only with planes related to elements hosted within it.
After a long day of trying to figure stuff out, I have come for advice and guidance, hoping someone can point me in the right direction and offer some knowledge to this beginner. Cheers!
Noah, What is the final output of this exercise? If you are doing to to learn that’s great, but if not there are some existing methods out there worth looking at.
But by building the logic into grasshopper so the process is nearly automated. The guy in this video does a lot of manual placement. I realize this is a big project, but I am trying to take things one step at a time and am learning much in the process!
Today I realized I might use the Area component to obtain a Centroid point. Now I am trying to figure out how I can create a plane on a point, or perhaps a face which is parallel to that face.
I wonder if I am asking for too much help here. Continuing to research. I have been working on this for a few hours a day.
To do something like this, would I do best to learn Python scripting within Grasshopper?
The more variables you are trying to automate the more combinatorially explosive in logic its going to be.
Learning Grasshopper as well as automating a complex process is going to take a while and will lead you down many paths that you’ll need to abandon, but in the end will be better for it.
Now I am concerned with how to sort the planes so the planes created from a surface stay related to the surface, and in turn the location curve/wall in which they are relevant. Not sure if that makes sense
Since you are working in RiR and probably using Feet or Meters as a Rhino Template your Plane previews are huge, you can change this in the GH document here.
Interestingly enough, this was also my very first thing to try doing in grasshopper and was learning through it. Sadly, I didn’t complete this project because I got busy.
But if this is something you are pursuing or looking for more guidance on, please leave me a message and I will be glad to help you out.
Hi Japhy, A general question came up while I was exploring the Is Planar component outputs.
Is it possible/does it make sense to access only the Z data displayed in the left panel, to obtain a similar data tree as in the middle panel?
I also notice Is Planar - Plane output is the same as Eval Srf - Frame output. Can you help me understand what, if any, difference exists between the two outputs? Thanks!
