array in region

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Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on November 8, 2015 at 5:30pm

Hello Ahmad,

My 1st comment is that scale doesn't "work" on areas but on dimensions. So you would need the square root of the scaling factor for areas. See this discussion for more details: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/whats-wrong-with-the-scal...

Secondly, I should notice that it is not guaranteed that you can fill a rectangle with squares. It depends on the rectangle's dimensions. So you should decide what is more important for you: to have a square grid that does not fill the rectangle exactly, or to have a rectangular grid that fills it.

If it is the second you can either get the rectangle's dimensions and divide them by the number of grid cells to get the cell's dimensions, or you can treat the rectangle as a surface and use [DivideSurface] component to get the grid.

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I just saw that you don't mention anything about the number of squares of your grid. In case this is not a constrain, then you CAN actually fill the rectangle with squares, by calculating the greatest common divisor and using this as square size...(that is option number 3)

Permalink Reply by Ahmad Kotbi on November 9, 2015 at 3:25am

Thank you very much, that was so helpful,

I added a sq.root to scale the area instead of dimensions. and it worked exactly as I want. 

to answer your questions:

the rectangle is 62 X 125 so a grid of 1x1 squares will spread fine and scaling each squares will also work fine. 

here is a copy if what I've done in case some one faced the same problem. I used 0.8 scale and the ratio of areas is 0.8.

cheers