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James O'Donnell replied to James O'Donnell's discussion Simple Loft Issue?

"spot on. Thanks Hannes, all sorted! J"

Jun 15, 2012

Hannes Löschke replied to James O'Donnell's discussion Simple Loft Issue?

"Probably a mismatch in data tree depth. Try to simplify the input curves before connecting them to the loft."

Jun 15, 2012

James O'Donnell posted a photo

Warp Visualisation

Visual Measure of Warped Surface

Jun 14, 2012

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James O'Donnell commented on James O'Donnell's photo

"This truss is created by first drawing the two chords, dividing the curves and using cull to join the diagonals. To add the "twisted" truss, you just need to draw another curve, divide and join the dots. I can send you the gh def..."

Jun 14, 2012

James O'Donnell posted a discussion

Simple Loft Issue?

I have three curves I want to loft to create a surface. If I bake the three curves I can loft it in Rhino If I try lofting in grasshopper I get an error! You can see it just creates a planar surface between first and third curves... Any help much apprieciated! …See More

Jun 14, 2012

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James O'Donnell commented on MARIO VERGARA's photo

plywood test 2

"thanking you"

Jun 11, 2012

James O'Donnell commented on MARIO VERGARA's photo

plywood test 2

"Looks great. What did you use to make it?"

Jun 11, 2012

hassan abbasi commented on James O'Donnell's photo

Twisted Truss

"how do i make the zigzag pattern, i made once now i cant recall. can u help me out, i am working over a similar truss system..."

Mar 23, 2012

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Twisted Truss

Mar 23, 2012

James O'Donnell replied to Arthur Mamou-Mani's discussion Ungroup a Cluster ?

"I had the same problem. Best to Open the cluster. Copy the definition and paste back into your workspace. Can then delete the cluster if you no longer need it. James"

Jan 24, 2011

James O'Donnell replied to James O'Donnell's discussion Can't Shift List

"David, Perfect! Just what I was looking for! Thanks (Very quick reply!!) James"

Jan 23, 2011

David Rutten replied to James O'Donnell's discussion Can't Shift List

"Hi James, there is no 'list of points on top'. What you have is a whole bunch of lists each containing a single item. When there's a dark stripe in the panel with something like {0;0;3;2} written along the right edge, it means a new…"

Jan 23, 2011

James O'Donnell posted a discussion

Can't Shift List

I am having trouble using the shift list command on a list of points which is not configured how I would like. Please see attached screenshot. How do I get the list of points on top into a format similar to that on the bottom? Thanks!!See More

Jan 23, 2011

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James O'Donnell replied to Ignacio Álvarez García's discussion Help please!! in the group Geometry Gym

"Ignacio, When I use GSA with Grasshopper, I generally save the baked Grasshopper definition as a dxf file and then import the dxf file into GSA. Maybe try this first. James"

Dec 6, 2010

James O'Donnell replied to Michael Meyer's discussion Help with simple Sweep2

"Yep, I am trying the 0.8.0001 and get the same "First rail curve geometry failed to load." No idea whats going on.... Seems find on older versions witht he same def James"

Nov 15, 2010

James O'Donnell joined Jon Mirtschin's group

Geometry Gym

BIM (Building Information Modeling) enhancements for Rhino and Grasshopper, import/export to Revit, Digital Project, Bentley and Archicad amongst others. Also Structure modeling (including analytic) and Computational Geometry Tools such as mesh relaxation/inflation and tessellation tools.See More

Oct 29, 2010

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