Rotation and pull

i have canterary curves hanging from the top plane of a box. there is a center rod that has a line, from the rod to the midpoint of each canterary. i need to be able to rotate the center rod, wrapping the line around it, and pulling the midponts of the canteraries inward towards the rod. this is for an architectural installation.

thanks

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Permalink Reply by Alyssa Sullivan on February 24, 2011 at 12:01pm

i tried to download the file and it still takes me to an HTML webpage with a long encoded definition... I'll look at the image you sent, thanks!

-alyssa

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on February 24, 2011 at 3:44pm

If that's the case you need to use the right click menu option to "save link as.." (for example in Chrome)

Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on February 24, 2011 at 10:56pm

Here's another screencast. MovCat

Attachments:

MovHangingCat.ghx, 206 KB

Permalink Reply by Alyssa Sullivan on February 24, 2011 at 7:28pm

thats what i did, but on my mac's safari, it won't download.

Permalink Reply by Dennis Nelson on February 24, 2011 at 7:48pm

On my mac, with safari, if just click on the file to download it, it opens up the html code, but if you ctl-click on and select "download linked file". Then it should download.

Permalink Reply by Alyssa Sullivan on February 27, 2011 at 11:10pm

thank you so much :) that worked perfectly.

after two weeks of trying to figure this out, all your guys' help finally paid off. now my architecture project will be perfectly mechanical!

-alyssa

Attachments:

02-27 CURVES.ghx, 12.2 MB

Permalink Reply by Alyssa Sullivan on March 1, 2011 at 1:31pm

it still is not doing that i need. let me rephrase the question. is there a way to create a path for the gravity of the catenary to follow? the file above, movingcatdrum.ghx is what i need but does not transpire into document.