Continuous Aligned Panels on Folding Surface

Hi All,

This might look very simple but I've been having some problems achieving this to the point that I'm starting to think this might be a Grasshopper limitation.

I'm trying to create a series of parallel lines with the same width to be coplanar to a folded mesh (or continuous folded surface). The trick here is that I want these lines to be precisely 400mm apart throughout the mesh... I know that this is achievable as per my paper model attached

I tried using the panelling tool but this doesn't allow me to control the dimension between the lines...

Any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on September 26, 2014 at 1:23pm

Hello Ricardo

Something like this? I am not sure i understood what you are after.

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by Ricardo Duque on September 29, 2014 at 12:08pm

Hi Alex,

Many thanks for your response, this is great although I see you are generating the surface directly on grasshopper. I have a series of surfaces that were created in Rhino and I'm trying to apply a division logic to it. This logic needs to allow for the distance between the elements to be controlled by a number (rather than dividing a surface by "x" number)...

To better understand what I'm trying to do, please find attached files. It's quite primitive but you can see that I'm controlling the division distance by 400mm (on U value slidder). I would like to apply this division logic to the whole cyan surface on the model, keeping as many continuous lines along folding lines as much as possible...

If any of the above is still confusing, in summary, I'm trying to clad this cyan surface witha a 400mm panel with continuous joints along folding lines...

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Attachments:

Folding Lines Cladding.3dm, 2.5 MB
Folding Lines Cladding.gh, 12 KB

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on September 29, 2014 at 12:16pm

Hello

i am not dividing any surface. I am making copies of lines, which have a distance between them controlled by the slider.

anyway i will look into your files and get back to you with possible solution.

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on September 29, 2014 at 1:14pm

Hello again,

do you mean something like this? I assumed that the middle surface gives the cladding main direction.(from the three surface you were working with in your file).

cheers

alex

Permalink Reply by Ricardo Duque on September 29, 2014 at 3:31pm

Hello Alex,

Many thanks for this, this was exactly what I was looking for! I also added a rotation component to control the direction of the grid as per attached.

Thanks again!

Ricardo

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Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on September 29, 2014 at 3:45pm

Yes great addition. One last thing to consider could be the P input of contours (starting point of contouring), in case the plane origin is not suitable.

you are welcome!

alex

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