how is the porting from PanelingTools to grasshopper going? I could use some of that stuff...
On Oct 7, 4:37 pm, David Rutten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Pax, > > Rajaa Issa has started porting a bunch of PanelingTools features over > to grasshopper. She's currently waiting for me to complete some > functionality, but it sounds like that might make your life a lot > easier. In addition, if you think that a specific component would be > useful for this kind of work, let me know and I'll try to add it. > > Doing patterning is typically quite tricky because it involves a lot > of special casing for boundary conditions, and special casing stuff is > very difficult in Grasshopper. > > -- > David Rutten > Robert McNeel & Associates > > On Oct 7, 8:46 pm, Pax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hmmm, what I was trying to do was connect a specificpointto another > > on a > > surface with a straight line, in order to divide that surface into a > > controlable number of lines (straight, not curved), which connect > > predictably. See attached *.png that shows what I was trying to > > achieve. (4 line directions in total) > > >http://grasshopper3d.googlegroups.com/web/2008-10-07+Generated+Mesh+E... > > > I have created a super long winded way of doing this, but it seems > > very inefficient, by manually selecting a row of points, and > > connecting these to the adjacent (shifted) row, and so on through all > > possible rows (limited by how dense I have allowed the mesh to be). It > > slows down the programme considerably when sliding sliders... I'm > > trying to rework it slowly... > > > Unfortunately I am not permitted to post the *.wrm, but well, you get > > my drift, if anyone else has tried to generate such a line grid off a > > surface, any hints or tips are welcome, many thanks! > > Pax
