Wall Insulation hatch...?

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Hello,

Is there a way to improve walls having hatches with a special "insulation ", to fill wall, which will “follow” the direction, and the "sickness of the insulation of the wall ?

[Insulation hatch - unparallel lines - Grasshopper](https://Old link to a grasshopper def)

It gives a very professional finish to sections.

If you could did it… please use it again on roof :wink:

Thank you :slight_smile:

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Hi Antoine,
We have considered adding a new hatch pattern (actually it might be a new “Linetype”) that simulates the typical insulation representation, which is missing in Rhino. But we didn’t think about cases like the one in GH forum, for walls with irregular thickness. This might be more tricky to implement, so I recommend using some of these GH definitions you can find out there so far.

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Hi frances,
Thank you, for my use, walls are 99.99% the same thickness lol
I just put the link to an understanding of my wish, but yes, this is the linetype missing that I am looking for…

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Dear @fsalla ,

Is there an update on this topic? I would like to have a wall insulation hatch just for walls and slabs with a regular thinkness. What is the best way to do this?

Thank you!

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Hi David,
No news on this request. You can find out there some hatch pattern files (.pat) with the one of the insulation representation. Take a look at this Topic: Create and use new hatch patterns - #8 by Eugen
It might help you on slabs, but not on walls, because since it’s a hatch and not a linetype, it won’t orient to the direction of the wall.

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Thank you for your answer @fsalla. I’m aware of the topic you send me.

I would have two further questions:

  1. Is there a way how I can get the desired result with linetypes? If so, how? Or is there another workaround?
  2. Is there a timeframe for implementing this? Can we see this is VA3?

Thank you again.

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Hi David,

  1. Find attached a GH file that generates the insulation curves, as a workaround. The results at the intersections could be improved. It’s meant to be used with the Grasshopper player. I hope it helps:

Insulation Soft Linetype Polyline.gh (32.1 KB)

InsulationCurves

  1. This feature is not scheduled for VisualARQ 3.
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Dear Francesc,

Thank you very much for your answer and the script! For the ones who also like to use it: I’m working in millimeters and therefore the script crashed rhino the first time as the standard width of the insulation is set to about 0.01.
Also there seems to be a something that the script does not group the insulation curve if the polyline is just a straight line with two points.

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Hi David,
I’ve modified the definition a bit so it’s prepared to work on a millimeters document. It also fixes the case of getting a single insulation polyline when you draw it as a straight line with two points.

Insulation Soft Linetype Polyline mm.gh (32.9 KB)

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That is great Francesc, thank you!