Expandable 3D cube form subdivided into individual cells

Hello All,

I am new to grashopper and am struggling with just about everything here. What I am trying to create is a cube (in a rectangular shape) ideally with sliders that govern the dimensions and then subdivide the faces into cells of the same or at least similar size. Does anyone have any idea what that would look like in grasshopper or where to even begin? Thanks in advance.

-S

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Permalink Reply by User on January 5, 2015 at 6:44am

Hi,

you have a lot of different way to do that.

Here two options.

bye

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Box divide.gh, 8 KB

Permalink Reply by Steve on January 5, 2015 at 7:08am

Ok cool, I didn't even know where to start! Thank you so much for the help. I am having trouble getting the file to produce any geometry unless I bake it. Is there anyway to see the geometry as I change the sliders within grasshopper? I bet that a stupid question so please forgive my ignorance.

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on January 5, 2015 at 8:05am

Hi Steve,

Make sure you have turned on the preview of the component you want to see (right-click on its name)

and also that you haven't selected "Only draw preview geometry for selected objects"

Permalink Reply by Steve on January 5, 2015 at 8:24am

That did the trick! I wasn't previewing it, thank you so much!

Permalink Reply by Steve on January 6, 2015 at 5:40am

Hey Nikos,

Is it possible to introduce 2 different sets of sliders for the X and Y directions? When I create a rectangular shape the size variations are huge between cells

Permalink Reply by User on January 6, 2015 at 5:44am

just try to add one for U and one for V... let me know

Permalink Reply by Steve on January 6, 2015 at 5:49am

Thanks User, I tried that but when I added a slider to the U and V sections the model disappears. Any idea why? I have attached some pics

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uv slider.jpg, 953 KB
uv slider 2.jpg, 938 KB

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on January 6, 2015 at 6:29am

It is probably because of the 0.25 value.

U and V should be integers (you can't divide something into 0.25 parts), try right-clicking on the slider and changing the properties (or just copy-paste the U slider)

Permalink Reply by Steve on January 6, 2015 at 6:33am

That worked! Excellent, thanks a bunch. Do you guys know how I could use the populate 2d command to place points within those cells by any chance? I cant figure out where to place the populate 2d without having nothing work or having the other options go all red on me.

Permalink Reply by Steve on January 6, 2015 at 6:36am

New problem though, when I make a rectangle the cells on the ends are much smaller than the cells on the long sides (because they are being controlled by the same value). I need to have some other place where I can control the inputs with different values for both directions

this image might explain what I mean better

http://i.imgur.com/OMRBauY.jpg

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on January 6, 2015 at 7:27am

This is a way to divide each face in almost equally-sized cells:

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