modular grid on surface

Hi all,

I have been fighting this problem for a bit now. Essentially I need to panel a surface with a 12"x96" module that is planar and orthogonal to world coordinates not surface coordinates. Ive tried paneling tools with no success. I written a script that divides the front face of the edge curve into 12" segments. Then drew curves in the y direction to project onto the surface. I get stuck when it comes to dividing those curves by 96" and finding the perpendicular line to the adajacent line. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Permalink Reply by Yoann Mescam (Systemiq) on November 15, 2011 at 5:21am

Would something like that work well enough for you ?

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Permalink Reply by Rajaa Issa on November 17, 2011 at 11:53am

Hi Chris,

Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I would try the following:

- Project the border of your surface to a plane (maybe XY plane).

- Create your modular planels using PanelingTools or any other mean you prefer

- Write a script that does the following:

- Find the centroid of each panel C

- Project each point to the surface C'

- Move your panel from C-C'

Hope this helps.
-Rajaa Issa

Permalink Reply by Chris Johnson on November 18, 2011 at 11:32am

Thank you both for your response.

Rajaa,

I think your idea is closer to what I am trying to get at.

It still needs to be orientated to the surface along the y axis as well. Other than that its exactly what I am trying to accomplish. I will mess around with the orient components and see what results I get. Ill post what I discover

Thanks again for your help.

Chris

Permalink Reply by Chris Johnson on November 18, 2011 at 1:34pm

orient was'nt really working out that well. I got rotate about an axis to work but proved to be very cumersome. I tried another method for projecting all 4 corners from the base modules to the curvy surface. The result by eye looks nice, but the modules get warped and are no longer conistent to a 2d module.