Need help with parametric tower

Hello,

i'm rather new to gh and i recently ran into some trouble using the software.
A few days ago i did some tutorials on how to create parametric towers and a parametric truss. I managed to combine those methods, but now i stuck at something which might be actually easy for you guys, but i can't figure it out by my own.

So what i've basically done, i made a tower which i divided in subsurfaces and then set a truss to them.
What i want to do now is to increase the thickness of the towerwall, so it actually becomes a solid.

i can do it in Rhino by creating a parallel surface of the towersurface, but i want to do it parametrical in gh.

I also like to know if there is way to set a voronoi to my parametric tower

I'm really looking forward for your answers.
many thanks in advance.

Julian

Attachments:

organic tower combined.gh, 18 KB
parametric tower combined with truss.gh, 17 KB

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Permalink Reply by Nick on January 28, 2014 at 9:24am

Julian,

See attached for the offset truss facade. I'm sure there's a better way (there always is isn't there?) but I believe this achieves what you want. As for voronoi, I am of no help, I've never really worked with them.

My changes are in purple groups.

Attachments:

parametrictowercombinedwithtruss_MOD.gh, 19 KB

Permalink Reply by Julian Lange on January 28, 2014 at 10:47am

Hey Nick,

thx a lot, i really appreciate your help!
When i open your settings, i get a huge amount of messy curves and surfaces around the tower and i don't really see where they come form. Is it the same when you are running it?

What i wanted to achieve is sth like this. I made this with rhino, to get a thicker towerwall by adding a parallel surface to it, is there a easy way to do it parametrical in Rhino?

greetings

Attachments:

wandstärke.jpg, 92 KB

Permalink Reply by Nick on January 28, 2014 at 2:14pm

hmmm... no problem on my end. Which version of Rhino and GH are you using?

Permalink Reply by Julian Lange on January 29, 2014 at 2:14am

I am using Rhino 5 and just downloaded grasshopper few weeks ago, guess it's the latest version tho.

could you upload a picture of your model?

Permalink Reply by Nick on January 29, 2014 at 9:14am

see attached. I am using Rhino 5.0 and GH Beta 4 version (see at top of discussion page) but that shouldn't be an issue.... Is it maybe just your GH preview settings that are set to wireframe instead of shaded? (ctrl+3)

Attachments:

ParametricTower1.jpg, 147 KB
ParametricTower2.jpg, 143 KB

Permalink Reply by Nick on January 29, 2014 at 9:24am

Actually, as I'm going through it, I do see some triangles that are screwed... My bad. Back to the drawing board...

Permalink Reply by Julian Lange on January 29, 2014 at 1:43pm

thx a lot for your efforts Nick!

Permalink Reply by Nick on January 30, 2014 at 10:21am

Julian, see attached.

Make sure you're using the latest GH (beta 4). Opening the gh file in previous versions seems to cause issues...

Attachments:

parametrictowercombinedwithtruss_MOD.gh, 21 KB

Permalink Reply by Julian Lange on January 30, 2014 at 11:18am

WOW, it's working and it is impressive! exactly what i wanted.

thank you so much Nick!

i'll take myself some time to follow the steps you made and try to understand them :)

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