Diagrid cylinder HELP!!!!!

Hi everyone,

im new to grasshopper. Im currently pulling my hair out after spending 3hrs trying to find a very basic example of a diagrid around a cylinder shape. All i want to do is show it with 'piped' lines and im running out of time. Why is it so hard to find a tutorial of this explained huh!

Please can someone help with steps on how to or even better a .ghx file with it done.

Ive attached a simple picture with what im after.

Please help anyone out there.........!?!

rob

Attachments:

simple diagrid.jpg, 51 KB

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Permalink Reply by djordje on October 11, 2012 at 7:37am

Will something like this work?

You can define the height and radius of the cylinder as well as number of spirals and it's radii using the four sliders on the very beginning of the definition.

Attachments:

diagrid cylinder.gh, 9 KB

Permalink Reply by robert cole on October 11, 2012 at 7:50am

that looks exactly what im after!

i cannot open it in grasshopper though for some reason? it says IO generated message and will not load?? ......any ideas.

thanks a million

Permalink Reply by djordje on October 11, 2012 at 7:56am

Sorry to hear that.
It probably has to do with my older version of Grasshopper (I am still using 0.8.0066 and the file has been saved under that version).

Here is the screenshot of the definition, maybe you can build it by yourself by coping the image:

Permalink Reply by robert cole on October 11, 2012 at 8:00am

im using 0.8.0010 so that may be why?

Ok well I shall have a go at building it myself. Thank you very much for you help.

I may email later if i get stuck on knowing what things are in the file above.

Permalink Reply by djordje on October 11, 2012 at 8:05am

That may be the reason - you are trying to open a .gh file made with a newer version of Grasshopper.
Download the latest version from here. Uninstall your current 0.8.0010 version and install the one you downloaded.

I think you will be able to open the above attached file then.

No problem, let us know if you get stuck with something.

Permalink Reply by robert cole on October 11, 2012 at 8:11am

just updated to new grasshopper latest version and your file opens perfectly:)

once again thank you for your help.

Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on October 11, 2012 at 8:56am