Wrong Input?

Hi,

I'm attempting to create connection joints between the planar surfaces of the singular shape ( tetradecahedron),

however when i attempt to input the shape as a curve into the joint definition, it fails to collect data.. do i need to explode the shape so that they are all separated?

I'd love some advice as to what data/ parameter i need to input!

Thanks!

Attachments:

GH09X_ConnectionProfiles.gh, 38 KB
wp-tetrakaidecahedron.3dm, 549 KB

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Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on May 27, 2015 at 4:54am

Hi Annie,

The component you have works with polylines, you have a polysurface (Brep for Grasshopper).

You can reference it inside GH as a Brep and then use [DeBrep] and take the Faces output and plug it in [Crv]. You will also need to significantly lower the 2 sliders:

Permalink Reply by Annie T on May 27, 2015 at 6:08am

Thankyou!!

so i made the Brep + Deconstruct Brep, but it is still failing to collect data.. do you mind showing me a screenshot of what is going on inside your cluster?

also how would i know when to increase/decrease my slider?

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on May 27, 2015 at 7:49am

Hello Annie,

I didn't change anything inside the cluster, I never even opened it actually...

I was talking about the 2 sliders outside the cluster (the one sets the length of the lines and the other the size of the text).

Did you reference your brep inside Grasshopper? (right-click on the [Brep] component and set one Brep)

Maybe you referenced more than one breps? I don't know what could be wrong...

Why don't you post your GH file again (with the added components) to see what's the problem?

Permalink Reply by Annie T on May 27, 2015 at 8:29am

ah..

yup i did! here are the updated files. any chance you know what's going wrong?

Attachments:

GH09X_ConnectionProfiles.gh, 24 KB
wp-tetrakaidecahedron.3dm, 394 KB

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on May 27, 2015 at 9:00am

Ok, I think I got this...

The cluster is using a component from kanaroo plugin (Remove duplicate lines). I am guessing you don't have this plugin installed and so the definition breaks at this point.

this is how the cluster should look:

Hopefully this is the problem and should be resolved by installing kangaroo plugin (which is an overall great tool btw) from here. (kangaroo physics 0.099 is the one you need for this).

Let me know if this worked.

Permalink Reply by Annie T on May 27, 2015 at 10:16am

Yes it worked!!! :D

Thanks so much for explaining that!

Permalink Reply by nikos tzar on May 27, 2015 at 9:15am

I see now that you could skip the [dupLn] component but this will create each text-tag and polyline twice (one on top of the other). It will look ok though so... use at your own risk:

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