Diagrid follows the shape of the base surface

Hello All,

I have been trying to create a diagrid that follows the shape of the base surface rather than being series of straight line. I followed this tutorial but I have a problem:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP5PxBn_5rc

when I use "divide surface", I dont get four list items as 0, 1, 2 ,3 all i get is a long sries of numbers. so I can connect those points. Any idea?

Thanks so much for your help.

Cheers

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Permalink Reply by Parametric House on February 7, 2014 at 10:39am

Hi
You can use curve on surface for an isotrimmed main surface

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Permalink Reply by mahsa on February 7, 2014 at 12:57pm

Thank you so much Mohamad jan, I have been trying to do this for 3 days!

my best

Permalink Reply by Parametric House on February 7, 2014 at 1:02pm

You're welcome :)

Permalink Reply by mahsa on February 7, 2014 at 2:47pm

I am trying to sweep the digrid curves with a rhino curve to make the custom window profile. any suggestion on that?

Permalink Reply by Parametric House on February 7, 2014 at 10:25pm

You can make the profiles by extruding a curve along a curve or use sweep. You can use any point for orienting the profile curve, I've used the area centroid

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Permalink Reply by mahsa on February 8, 2014 at 6:04pm

Thanks so much Mohamad jan, You Rock!

I actually decided to morph the panel object on the revolved surface rather than building the diagrid. The reason was the triangular profile for the diagrid; which I couldnt get the base of it to be tangent to the base surface at all time. I tried sweep. I am using Rhino 4 and plugin for Rhino 4 dose not have extrude curve along a curve.

The morph seems to work fine, but the top part of geometry is not smooth. It is somehow segmented. I tried to define an attractor point to make the panels closer to the top smaller, no luck! (V2) Any suggestions on that? Thanks a lot for all your help Mohamad jan and I wish you the very best.

cheers,

Mahsa

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Permalink Reply by Parametric House on February 10, 2014 at 8:06am

You're welcome Mahsa

You can easily solve all your problems by using surface morph

Surface morph will smoothly morph your object on the surface
There is also a trick which you can attract your module on the top and bottom. Graph mapper can change the density of the domains and hence act like an attractor

I suggest you disable the surface morph, change the handles and then run morph because surface morph is a heavy function.

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Permalink Reply by Parametric House on February 10, 2014 at 8:17am

Because you have a periodic surface I suggest you make the surface with an open curve. By adjusting the graph mapper (U = linear, V= Bezier) You can have the modules attract at the top and bottom