Understanding the components

Hi Guys,

Another task we have to complete is to redraw this definition. Only thing is I dont know what some of the components are?? Would someone be able to tell me possibly what some of them are???

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Permalink Reply by Meagan Wood on May 30, 2012 at 6:51pm

The ones I dont understand are;

Cull

Area

SrfCP

Amp

Project

Dif??

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 31, 2012 at 2:26am

Hi Meagan,

There are some tips about how to locate components here:

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/what-is-this-component-an...

But the ones you are after some have changed name as newer versions of GH have been released. Discussed in detail in the link above is the Create Facility which allows you to type the name of a component with out having to locate it on the tool bar, this returns the most likely candidates. eg Cull. I've given the example of both name and icon so that you can see the differences.

Cull Pattern will remove items from a a list based on a True/False pattern

Area will return both the Area and the Centroid of a surface

Surface CP(Closest Point) willl find the location on a surface of a Point in 3D space. It will return the 2D (U,V) co-ordinate of the Surface space

Amplitude allows you to set the length of a vector. Useful when moving objects etc

Project (in this case project to a BRep) will intersect a Curve with a BRep from a given direction

Merge - simply merges two lists (however Path Structure plays an important role with the results eg {0;0} will be merged with {0;0} but not with {0;1} or {0;0;0} etc

Solid Difference will remove the intersection of one solid object from another.

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hope this helps

Permalink Reply by Mateusz Zwierzycki on May 30, 2012 at 7:40pm