Create Set not working?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 8, 2014 at 8:50am

Hi Rob,

sorting certainly won't matter, Create Set doesn't care about the order in which values are specified.

Could it be that your floating point numbers are not actually the same? When displaying floating point numbers Grasshopper rounds to 6 decimal places. These numbers typically support up to 16 decimal places and if there is a tiny difference further down they will register as different numbers.

To test the actual values of your numbers, you can use a Format component with the formatting mask {0:R}   (the 'R' stands for Roundtrip, meaning no rounding will be used and the text can be converted back into numbers without any loss of information).

If it turns out the least significant digits do indeed differ, you can round your numbers to N decimal places using an expression:

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David Rutten

david@mcneel.com

Permalink Reply by Rob on March 8, 2014 at 9:30am

That did it. It was a rounding error, although I am not sure how it originated. The rounding expression solved it.

Thanks for the help!