aligning rectangles to centre points through p frames

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on October 30, 2017 at 6:33am

Create X/Y domains that go from '-x/2' To 'x/2'.  Those are the "expressions" on the inputs:

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Permalink Reply by Leonie on October 30, 2017 at 6:58am

amazing!!!!! Thank you so much 

Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on October 30, 2017 at 7:13am

Suggestion?  Your code can be simplified quite a bit to avoid all the copy/paste.  One thing, for example, would be to create just one level of beams, then move and rotate it four times:

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Permalink Reply by Leonie on October 30, 2017 at 7:06pm

@Joseph Oster can I ask the expression you wrote for the domain, 

what is the reason for it so I can understand what is going on better? 

as the diagonal domains are come up smaller than the real value.

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Oster on October 30, 2017 at 7:52pm

The easiest way I can answer your question is to compare these two rectangles:

I'm just suggesting a way to align the center of rectangles.  If there's more to it than that, it's up to you.  Your model.

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Permalink Reply by Leonie on October 30, 2017 at 8:55pm

as soon as I wrote the post I figured out what x/2 is doing. thank you though