giving uneven structural depth to a diagrid

Hi,

I've just started using grasshopper and am trying to work out how to give a varied or uneven structural depth to a diagrid.

I've made the uneven surface diagrid that is explained in the gh primer, but now wanted to try and give the grid an uneven structural depth across the surface also using a component such as the GraphMapper, or perhaps point attractors. In the example, the structure is given using the pipe component but i am wanting to use beam components, and so maybe an extrude, loft or something like the fin tool in rhino would be better. Is this something very difficult to do?

If anybody could help or direct me to a tutorial that would help that would be very much appreciated. I've attached the surface that I'm experimenting on and the diagrid definition. Many thanks!

Dan

diagrid%20test.3dm

diagrid%20test.gh

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Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on January 5, 2012 at 7:20am

Fast shot... try this one

Best Regards

DeDackel

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Goodacre on January 5, 2012 at 7:46am

Wow, thanks for such a fast reply!

This is exactly what i meant in terms adding depth to the beams, however just testing it out, I may be wrong but it seems that the sliders either increase or decrease the depth equally over the whole grid. What i'm hoping to get to is where different areas of the grid would have different depths so it would be a thinner structure in one area and thicker elsewhere, in the z direction. Something that could be controlled in a similar way with the graphmapper...

Anyway i'll spend some more time looking at what you've done and see what i can learn. Very helpful in the meantime!

Best,

Dan

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