Breps at points

Hello

I'm pretty new to grasshopper. I am trying to do what I think is a very simple operation, but I can't figure it out. I have a set of points and I want to tell rhino to place a particular polysurface at each point. That's it.

I'm sure there's also a very easy way to do this in rhinoscript, but I haven't worked with code in many years. I have also tried using paneling tools, but since the points aren't in a grid, it won't work.

It seems that this should be simple... any help/ideas are greatly appreciated.

griffin

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Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 2, 2011 at 11:27pm

First, you need to define a set of vectors, that go from a single base point (on or near your polysurface) to all the points at which you'd like to place it. (use the vector between two points component.) Then use the move component to move the polysurface from its current location along the newly-defined vectors. It will produce a new copy of that polysurface at every one of the desired points.

Hope that helps!

Permalink Reply by Griffin Ofiesh on February 3, 2011 at 10:23am

this works perfectly... thank you!

one more question - is there a way to do the same thing, but instead of making new copies, to make instances of a block?

Permalink Reply by Andrew Heumann on February 4, 2011 at 12:07am

there is no way to create blocks or block instances within grasshopper. It is possible to script something that will place blocks in rhino in a way equivalent to baking them, but it is not possible to maintain them as manipulable data like other objects.

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