how can I model this ?

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 6, 2015 at 12:52am

This is rather "easy" but:

1. You need a certain experience in GH "managerial" matters (FULLY mastering the black art of dealing with DataTrees). Most probably after a level of complexity using components instead of code ... it could yield a nightmare of components (and a myriad of parameters). For real-life designs I would never attempt to do this without code.

2. A certain experience with Kangaroo (or some min surf other thing since using K on these ... well may be the killing a mosquito with a bazooka thing). That said I'm a great admirer of Daniel's work. But on the other hand why not?

3. A "certain" experience with trusses/space frames.

4. A "certain" experience with instance definitions (that's not doable with GH components).

5. Years of experience with parametric feature driven MCAD apps - Image35 (NX/CATIA) for designing the real-life parts (that have NOTHING to do with "abstract" concepts).

In total I would say that a similar "app" with code (excluding the min surf/mesh thing) would require 6-10 full days of work (or even more).

BTW: https://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/top...

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 6, 2015 at 1:21am

For instance (I do hope that Daniel doesn't read this, he he) and speaking about the bazooka thingy:

see this attached: I mean that well ... K could obviously provide a far better/realistic "min surf" thing ... BUT this IS not required in similar cases ... since the final recipient of such designs are the fellas from Birdair (in order to do it in real-life with real-fabrics with real membrane tensile components and get paid with real-money: that's the part that I like the most, he he).

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• Polyline_to_Kangaroo_v2.gh, 52 KB

Permalink Reply by sina tabibi on March 6, 2015 at 3:44am

thank you alot

peter fotiadis

Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on March 6, 2015 at 4:42am

A last note: this tops the lists of contemporary things. Anything else (whatever "visual" complexity has) pales in comparison, since we are talking about a combination of methods AND graphical editors (like GH) AND CAD/MCAD apps AND BIM apps AND unbiased both ways collaboration from day zero with dedicated manufacturing firms who usually deny any conversation if they don't know who you are.

http://www.birdair.com/

Attempting to "approximate" something similar (as an abstract exercise, so to speak) IS A VERY BAD practice/habit: it could yield a totally wrong conception of what this type of design actually demands in real-life and could CERTAINLY cause serious "adaptation" issues if and when anyoone decides to do this in real life as part of a team in some practice.

Kinda like designing a superbike 1L4 engine: certainly is very "easy" ... provided that you are Honda.

best, Peter