Orienting a panelized, morphed geometry

Okay, so I have a façade I populated with a given, manually created geometry (glazing panel, mullions...) Now I have an array of morphed façade modules, each one a different size, that I want to orient into a given surface for fabrication and specification.
The thing is, when a geometry is morphed using the "box morph" component, all elements merge into a single data branch within the morph tree, hence behaving as a "single object" when orienting (see attached pic)
I guess my question would be: is it possible to have the "box morph" component outputting each panel in a different data branch?

phew.. hope I was clear enough

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Permalink Reply by Lars Renklint on August 2, 2009 at 7:41am

I guess my question would be: is it possible to have the "box morph" component outputting each panel in a different data branch?

You could connect it to a dispatch component to have the morphed elements separated.

Permalink Reply by Dario Alonso on August 2, 2009 at 2:41pm

Thanks Lars!
I tried the dispatch option and didn't work (or didn't figure out a way to use it for my purposes). But I finally figured it out. It was just a matter a recreating the branches and making them match with the destination surface frames.

Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on August 2, 2009 at 3:48pm

Hi Dario.
Interesting........could you please explain how you recreated the branches to make thenm match ????

Permalink Reply by Dario Alonso on August 2, 2009 at 4:08pm

Alright, let me see.
I have a cross referenced box morph component with 60 elements in the same data branch. I want to filter these into 20 groups of three elements (the amount of geometries in the morph)
Thus I need an interval grabbing these elements from 0 to 2, from 3 to 5 and so on. Now is just a matter of using two series components and basic maths to fill this interval with the proper numbers.
See attached image for further detail

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