an unknown kangaroo problem!!! null point

Dear all,

I am new to kangaroo and I wrote a script about optimizing the glass panels on a roof surface (in the 3dm file)

Turned out Kangaroo physics couldn't create any geometry (null point) when I try to run the script.

Please advice.

Attachments:

Roof.3dm, 2.6 MB
optimizing mesh.gh, 23 KB

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Permalink Reply by Wiley Ng on March 1, 2014 at 6:00am

i worked on my script again and I found out that it is the planarizing component making the errors, but I couldn't fix it still. Also, is there a way to make every panel as uniform in size as possible? using the spring component?

Permalink Reply by Daniel Piker on March 1, 2014 at 6:59am

Hello Wiley,

The planarization component works on the points of a polygon, which must have at least 4 vertices.

In your definition it is trying to planarize the individual line segments which have only 2 points.

Something like this should work:

Also you may find it useful to add some other forces to keep the shape from changing too much while planarizing - such as anchorsprings to keep points near their original location, or smoothing.

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