Shaker Door

I am new at Grasshopper. How do you create a shaker door in grasshopper? That is a door that has lines starting in the center vertical than offsetting each side a particular amount. Your parameters would be door height, width, thickness, amount of offset of vertical lines.

thank you

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Permalink Reply by Philip Spore on June 23, 2016 at 3:47am

Is there a repeat offset command?

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on June 23, 2016 at 5:59am

In Grasshopper you dont need to "repeat" commands, everything is calculated all at once. But you can give the offset component a list of offsets and you will get all the offsets.

So you can easily make a series, where you set the "step" as your interval between offsets and how many you want in the "count". That way you get multiple offsets.

Hope that helps!

Permalink Reply by Philip Spore on June 24, 2016 at 3:55am

How do find the center line of a surface? If I create a rectangle control its UV extrude create surface then how do I find the center line to start the whole process? Thank you

Permalink Reply by Philip Spore on June 24, 2016 at 7:17pm

How do I boolean difference the solids and create a line vertical in the center?

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door.JPG, 56 KB

Permalink Reply by Hyungsoo Kim on June 25, 2016 at 2:02am

Hi.

Hope this is of some help. You can choose 2 types of door leaf pattern. Best.

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ShakerDoor.gh, 22 KB

Permalink Reply by Kim hauer on June 28, 2016 at 10:47am

Nice start HK

I have done a similar script in SketchUp using the Ruby API.
But when you look at all components a Door consists of Architecturally: Its a very ...very long list. Hinges, Latch set, Right, Left, Right reverse, Left reverse Door swing. Vent Grilles, combustible or non-combustible construction, Threshold, Door Name , Door Number, Size, Width, Thickness, UL Fire rating, Metal or Wood frame, Astergal, Weather stripping.

You quickly would come to the conclusion adding all this information into a GH script, One would need a proper HTML Menu Interface within GH. The sliders and stream components are not adequate in my opinion.

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