Read distances between columns with VisualARQ

Hi everybody,I would like to read distances between columns collected with the visualARQ tool.

How can I determinate distances in horizontal and vertical directions?

I created the algorithm with grasshopper and that's the result.My intent was to read the lenght of the lines between points, but there are some overlapped ones because grasshopper creates lines also between NOT consecutive points like in the image below.

How can i do to cull the overlapped lines choosing only the ones between consecutive columns?

Thanks everyone for the help.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on June 14, 2017 at 10:59am

This turned out to be troublesome... I didn't have your plugins, then found that I needed to manually "explode" the blocks in Rhino before I could import them to GH (now internalized in GH file).

'SortPoints' didn't work well so resorted to a two-stage sort process to get the points (columns) in a proper grid. Partitioned the points, etc. etc.

Tried a play with 'SerialDim (Serial Dimensions)' which failed miserably, so used 'Shift List' on X and Y dimensions to compute distances. Whew!

Aren't these dimensions available somewhere earlier in your work flow?

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Permalink Reply by Fausto on June 16, 2017 at 10:52am

Thank you so much for the answer. It didn't work too well adding or moving some column row, but i added some improvement and here it is :)

Bytheway my intent was reading distances of pre-modeled columns (made, for example in revit and exported in ifc format), so the answer to your question is no, they're not available earlier.

Next step. Do you know how i can determinate the mode function of X and Y count wihtout a built-in function?

Thanks a lot.

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