Area Sketch Tool

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Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on September 13, 2016 at 3:29am

The component in the middle is a cluster, meaning that there is a lot of other components inside it. Its like a group. So unfortunately you wont be able to find it anywhere and since we cant see the inside of the cluster you wont be able to rebuild it exactly like that.

But its not that difficult to do. You just use the curves to create boundary surfaces. Its using a pipeline so you dont have to set all the curves manually, but you can just draw them in Rhino and they are added. Calculating the area and displaying it is also really easy, just use Area component and Tag Display.

If you start to try and build it, we will help you where you get stuck ;)

Permalink Reply by Jay Joh on September 15, 2016 at 3:16am

Thx Armin, you helped me a lot! The "geometrie pipeline" is genius :) and calculating the area also worked for me as well with "text tag 3d"

Now I got some troubles with dimensioning of borderlines. I cant close the last line, because i need to close the "last point" with the "first point", but i have different geometries, with different number of "Points".

Permalink Reply by Jay Joh on September 15, 2016 at 3:54am

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on September 15, 2016 at 6:30am

Okay, actually its even simpler than that. You can just use Endpoints to find the start and end point of each curve and use that for the length and dimension input and then you dont even need to shift the list.

I included a handy little node I made to have numbers show with a certain number of decimal places and have connected it with a unit to display.

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Permalink Reply by Jay Joh on September 15, 2016 at 8:29am

I really like, that you join "Units" to the preview, very nice work! =) thx!!!

Permalink Reply by Armin Seltz on September 15, 2016 at 3:59am

I see. You can make it much simpler than that! You dont need to explode the tree, because that wont work if the number of dimensions changes. You just need to get the data tree right. For that last one, you just use the list item component and get index 0 (the first one) and -1 (the last one - indexes also work backwards, so its regardless of the number of items).

Can you upload the file with just the part from after the flip matrix. You can just right-click on the left D input and select 'Internalise Data' and then just send that part, so I can show you.

Permalink Reply by Jay Joh on September 15, 2016 at 5:21am

Thx you soo much man, I'll send you the GH file!

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on September 13, 2016 at 3:29am

Apparently this is some compiled C#/VB (i.e. a "component" from a "plug-in" ) that does this.

Since I don't use plug-ins I have no idea what this is.