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"Rules based design has a long history.... that precedes the script approach that GH et al takes. You may want to look at Designpower's Design++ framework... http://dp.com Your piping design example sounds similar to what Design++ enables for…"

"check this out it may interest you. http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/packrat-3d-bin-packing"

"also note, like most things in life, there are many solutions to problems, for instance finding the center of a face, here is 3 different ways but we see the middle option takes less computational time. So as your definitions grow computation power…"

"also, check out Davids webinar. https://vimeo.com/28175502"

"I think your questions are great, but alot of them are in those materials, hence why I suggest them. It is only for your benifiet. There is never to many questions but sometimes the answer is readily available. also note the search bar to the right…"

"I have it open already as well as all the other resources I found for GH. I found out about rhino and GH about 72 hours ago and haven't left my apartment since or done anything but sleep, read, play around on, post questions, download gh…"

"list item component, as I said in the other post, I strongly suggest you read the primer(s) and all these basic questions will be answered. Otherwise you will many avoidable questions.…"

"new problem - how do I extract just one point (point 0 for example) from the list of vertices points?? "

"well that was my next question but area does the same thing for the center too, as long as I don't explode"

"and to get the center of the box itself use volume."

"awesome, that works! I ran into a problem, it seems that when you have faces overlapping or points overlapping, you can't find them (it won't highlight in green because there is an un-highlighted point or face on top of it in red). Is…"

"Hi Luke, best would be to Explode the box (so you get 6 rectangular faces), then use the Area component to fid the Area centroid point of each face. -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

"This makes me thing maybe FAQ needs a "lingo" thread to let people know what things are called. For example component is component, not button, or battery, ect."

"Luke, please please please go to the tutorial section and go through the primer- the entire thing, and other tutorials there (even buy the book). gh is something you need to understand, Its not something to easily jump in to. Also, gh does not…"

"The word Brep stands for Boundary Representation. That in itself doesn't tell you much, but allow me to break down the general idea behind Breps. In Rhino UI itself, we don't use the word Brep, that one is only for programmers. Instead…"