How to manage multiple surfaces

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Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on August 23, 2015 at 9:34am

I just use miniaturized Panels and manually change the numbers.

You can indeed turn off preview mesh generation at the far right of the toolbar via the mesh quality menu, then you get a wireframe preview which can be much faster for some complex models.

Permalink Reply by Martina Rossi on August 23, 2015 at 10:54am

Thank you Nik. What are these minitaturized panels you are talking about? I tried with turning everything to wireframe preview but I still can't move the sliders. Any other idea?

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on August 23, 2015 at 12:42pm

I avoid sliders most of the time because of the silly lack of a responsive slider delay option that would only activate when you stop dragging for a moment.

The Panel component once placed on the canvas can simply be resized to a similarly long thin size as a slider. You can also double click sliders to access a dialog box version of the slider that is usually fully responsive and doesn't kick in until you close the dialog, but a Panel with an informative name given to it to label it seems more convenient to me in use.

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on August 23, 2015 at 1:57pm

I also use panels a lot, the main catch is that they have to be casted from text to the type you want (numbers, integers, domains).

If a panel is connected directly to a component that has a huge list of elements connected to another input, the cast is performed every time the component is solved (once for each element of the longer list, assuming the input is per item). This can be huge performance hit. A quick way around this is to connect the panel to whatever parameter you want to cast to before connecting it to the component.

Permalink Reply by Nik Willmore on August 23, 2015 at 1:59pm

Wow, another variable to be aware of, thanks.

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on August 23, 2015 at 1:48pm

Hi, post the file and I 98% guarantee to make it 10 times faster.

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on August 23, 2015 at 2:14pm

I recommend you post it soon before I stop procrastinating and summon the willpower to get back to work.

Permalink Reply by Martina Rossi on August 23, 2015 at 2:18pm

Hi Vicente, 

Thank you very much! There is the file, I don't know if it will be easy to understand, it's quite long. The problem is when I try to make the thing taller, the surfaces multiply and the sliders do not work correctly. It would be amazing if you could help with this!

Permalink Reply by Martina Rossi on August 23, 2015 at 2:20pm

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Attachments:

• Managing multiple surfaces_Martina.gh, 467 KB

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on August 23, 2015 at 4:01pm

Thank you for getting me back to work by procrastinating in cleaning your file. That definition is way, way more complicated that it should be.

This is a screenshot that does the same thing as your first 8 groups in a fraction of the number of components and producing a lot less intermediate geometry (internal expressions are just -x):

Permalink Reply by Martina Rossi on August 23, 2015 at 4:39pm

Wow Vicente thank you so much for this. I'm not an expert so it will take me some time to go through this, but I'm sure it will help a lot. I would appreciate if you could send me the gh file, is that possible?