GSA plates

Hi,

I've been struggling with creating simple (floor) plates in GSA using the Geometry components.

Attached the first GSA document shows a simple 2D plate element divided into a region mesh by using the tool in GSA 'Region Mesh Generation >> Generate 2D Mesh for Regions'.

In the Grasshopper definition (2) I follow the logic as in GSA by defining first the edge lines then an area a region. However the region never shows up as I would like to in the baked GSA file.

Do I need to manually define meshes in Grasshopper to get the same result as the meshed plate in GSA (see first file)

If any one can point me out to the problem in my definition and/ or what I am still missing I would really appreciate it. Otherwise I have to find another way to model my floor plates (like crosses).

Thanks in advance,

Dion

Attachments:

Goal - Floor plate in GSA.gwb, 13 KB
Grasshopper - Plate definition.gh, 11 KB
Result - Plate in GSA.gwb, 3 KB

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Permalink Reply by Jon Mirtschin on October 14, 2012 at 11:42pm

Hi Dion,

Sorry for taking some time to reply, and thanks to Chris at GSA for assisting me to trouble shoot this.

If you update to the newest version of the GSA plugin from http://www.geometrygym.com/downloads

There was a requirement in nominating a sizing attribute from the COM interface that is set to a default when creating the geometry manually. Also, note that the present version of GSA is reverting multi-way span types back to a void, so please use the two-way type for the time being.

I've attached what is working for me. Let me know if I can advise further,

Jon

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