Still looking for help

I can't seem to figure out how to place a pattern on geometry. see attached PLEAS Help

I understand how it works for a single surface

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PATTERN.jpg, 2 MB

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on December 3, 2011 at 5:29am

Can you include a rhino file with the referenced geometry?

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Permalink Reply by shaun on December 3, 2011 at 7:59am

Attached is the rhino geometry. I thought this would be pretty straight forward im having a difficult time understanding why its not working :/ thanks for the help

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geometery.3dm, 73 KB

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Permalink Reply by Chris Tietjen on December 3, 2011 at 3:50pm

Are you trying to apply the pattern of circles to the surface of the box in polka dot fashion?

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Permalink Reply by shaun on December 3, 2011 at 4:21pm

Yes, I would like to use an attractor/agent that would control the diameter of the circles based on distance

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Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on December 3, 2011 at 4:33pm

shaum

please see definition attached.

geometry is hidden in rhino

best

mario

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samplefile 2.gh, 6 KB
geometery2.3dm, 82 KB

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Permalink Reply by shaun on December 3, 2011 at 4:44pm

Awesome Mario...would you have time to explain the difference between exploding geometry and Brep, I thought that Brep also explodes geometry? I really want to become more efficient with grasshopper. I look at scripts and try to understand what they are doing. So, that at some point designing with grasshopper becomes intuitive to me

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Permalink Reply by MARIO VERGARA on December 3, 2011 at 4:52pm

you provided a geometry conformed by 4 surfaces, so a brep (boundary representation) is kind of a polysurface....at least that is what i understand

you cannot divide a polysurface with a divide surface component nor surface frames.

that is why you need to explode it in its parts.

best

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Permalink Reply by shaun on December 3, 2011 at 8:49pm

Ok sweet...I created this simple script based on what you told me I am currently using a number slider to control the diameter of the circles. I would like for the curves to be trimmed away from the surface inside of grasshopper, so that when I bake the surface I don't have to trim them in Rhino. I tried trim with no success

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