simple question about joining surfaces

hello,

i am new at grasshopper and rhino and i think i have a simple question. i'm creating a model, made of 4 joined EdgeSurfaces. three of the surfaces are forming correctly, but one is not.

there is a rectangle with a circle above it and four curves that connect the rectangle to the circle. this piece will be distributed across a quad surface, but before i get there, one of the four EdgeSurfaces that are joined to make a surface isn't acting like the others. it seems simple to fix, but i've tried what i know and nothing seems to work. file is attached, there is a little more detail on a panel to the right in the file. any suggestions?

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on March 24, 2013 at 4:43pm

You aren't using correctly the shatter component. It's asking for parameter values, not points. See the attached definition.

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Permalink Reply by pwdarden on March 24, 2013 at 6:52pm

thank you very much, vincente!

the next step is to make this geometry fit into a quad surface i've modeled. i'm not sure where in the script for the quad surface i can insert these three versions of what i am calling the modeled component. as of now i have 4 points from an exploded tree that are configured to create 4 pt surfaces. i want to replace these, and have the 3 modeled components distributed across the quad surface. i'm not sure if this is possible. what i am trying to achieve is a quad surface, with an attractor point that determine the height of the modeled component. as the height increases, the diameter of the circle also increases. i think this might be a better route than 3 separate modeled components distributed across the surface.

in the file, you can see the shape i've chosen to give a range, showing the shortest modeled component with a small diameter, and the tallest with a large diameter but not too large, so that it doesn't extend outside of the perimeter of its base.

any suggestions from anyone?

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