Hexagon as Box

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on April 28, 2013 at 5:16pm

Use the polygon component.

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on April 28, 2013 at 5:38pm

i am using polygons but i cant use them as a box because the box have 4 Edges

Permalink Reply by alex jenter on April 28, 2013 at 6:17pm

what do you mean when you say "use as a box"?

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on April 29, 2013 at 3:23am

i want to use them as a box to morph them on an surface.

The Geometry that i have is built from an hexagon and i want to connect same geometry at the edges, so that i have an hexagonal pattern.

I can built the geometry from the hexgrid, but it would take to long.

Thats why i want to morph the geometry to an hexagonal pattern.

I want it like on the image. but not on an uneven surface.

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on April 29, 2013 at 6:25pm

I'm still not getting what you want to do.  Have you got a small sample of the final result you're looking for?

Permalink Reply by alex jenter on April 29, 2013 at 7:22pm

i get it, you want to do a box morph but with hexagons instead of boxes, right?

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on April 30, 2013 at 7:32am

yes thats it. but i dont know how.

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on April 30, 2013 at 7:57am

I can't think of an easy way with normal gh omponents. I don't know your level or your coding skills but you can hack on the VB code of this post from my blog and achieve this using transformation matrices.

Best,

M.

Permalink Reply by Andreas Schiffer on April 30, 2013 at 1:08pm

that will be difficult... -.- with my skills.

I found a possible solution by using the lunchbox staggered quad panels.

I boxed the hexagonal brep and placed it on them with twisted boxes.

Permalink Reply by alex jenter on May 1, 2013 at 6:31am

why dont you just do it with a rectangular box like a rapport in tapistry?  since the pattern repeats itself in x and y there will be one.