Merge Lines and Contours for 2D Panelizing

So the end result (in these particular example images) would need to be 14 closed polylines (Capture) to form 14 "panels" on my surface. However, when I attempt to merge my contours and lines and then run the script I get randomly sized polylines infilling the grid (Capture 3). But if I only intersect both the horizontal and vertical contours I get the correct infill.

So I'm thinking this is a matter of merging the data correctly to input into the grid component but I cannot seem to figure this one out.

I've attached my definition, just needs reference brep to begin. Any help would be great!!

Attachments:

Panelize.gh, 19 KB
Capture.JPG, 121 KB
Capture3.JPG, 121 KB

Replies to This Discussion

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on July 29, 2014 at 11:20am

yes you are correct. you have to make sure that you have organized your curves using merge component. you can check the order using point list component.

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by Justin on July 29, 2014 at 12:05pm

Ok, I've organized the curves so that the point list is in order similar to yours, however, im still getting randomly sized infill rectangles as before. Any other suggestions??

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on July 29, 2014 at 12:17pm

no other suggestions unless you upload your files. i believe it has something to do with the way you are creating your brep.

Permalink Reply by Justin on July 29, 2014 at 12:20pm

Ok, well my file wasn't anything special just a quick surface to test the script, so I can definitely try changing it. Did you get the correct outcome when you baked your "panels"?

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on July 29, 2014 at 12:55pm

yes i baked it and there were unique panels organized in rows and columns.

the only problem was that it did not compute the upper panels (check the 5 indexes are missing)

that could be solved solved with clean tree component, that will remove nulls and rearrange the list.

Attachments:

Panelize_3.gh, 21 KB

Permalink Reply by Justin on July 29, 2014 at 3:14pm

Ok, yours seems to work but still running into some problem areas, but as you said could just be a matter of cleaning it up a bit. I'll keep playing around and see if i can get it to run complete, if so I'll post it back for anyone interested.

Thanks again for all the help and let me know if you take this any further.

Permalink Reply by Justin on July 30, 2014 at 7:52am

So everything is working well, however when there is a steep enough angle it seems that it will not infill cells of the grid where the point list is not sequential in number (See images). Is there anyway to make these numbers remain sequential with the angle?

Attachments:

Capture.JPG, 104 KB
Capture2.JPG, 107 KB
Panelize.gh, 22 KB

Permalink Reply by Justin on August 1, 2014 at 10:41am

Any suggestions for the previous issue?? still haven't resolved it.

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on August 1, 2014 at 10:44am

clean tree component

Permalink Reply by Justin on August 1, 2014 at 10:49am

I've tried to place this component in but didn't seem to have any effect. Where would you place it?

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on August 1, 2014 at 11:12am

as you can see there is still a problem happening when there's a triangular panel resulting when a row has 6 point an the next 5. i tried duplicating the point but that did not take care of the problem