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Geometry Gym BIM

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

Mar 7

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Tim Kuhn replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Trying to recreate a facade Idea.

"thanks!"

Mar 1

Florian Frank replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Trying to recreate a facade Idea.

"quick and dirty: if you don´t rotate the planes more than 90 degrees in the example above you can just scale the z direction to 0 ;-)...you'll still get the nice transitions of the twisted surface...but its a flat surface"

Mar 1

Systemiq replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Trying to recreate a facade Idea.

"If you want to work with image "attractor" instead of points, this could be a beginning: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/image-sampler-6?commentId=2985220%3AComment%3A776249 "

Mar 1

Tim Kuhn replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Trying to recreate a facade Idea.

"Thanks a lot! I think this will help a lot. Now question. What If I want to keep them planar, instead twisting just pinch the thickness? Any Idea on that? "

Mar 1

Florian Frank replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Trying to recreate a facade Idea.

"modeling twisted surfaces could be a first approach...now you have to get a system for selecting the planes(see the script from the other post) to rotate. You can do it with attractor points or by picking frames and if the center of the plane…"

Mar 1

Tim Kuhn posted a discussion

Trying to recreate a facade Idea.

Hey guys, I am wondering if anyone has any insight on how I could go about recreating and interesting facade I saw para metrically using grass hopper.http://ad009cdnb.archdaily.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/1778803484_3lhd-168-polyclinic-st-facade-west-render-by-boris-goreta-04.jpgThe link above shows the facade. The parametric idea would be for…See More

Mar 1

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Tim Kuhn replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Vector intersection with surface measurement.

"I think I have figured this out...though I am sure there is probably another way. "

Oct 29, 2012

Tim Kuhn posted a discussion

Vector intersection with surface measurement.

Hi, I am working on a project for school and I'm trying to design a facade for two surfaces that face each other. Since its for a hotel I want to create privacy. My idea is to take the surface normal of the one surface and project them to the opposite surface and measure the angle of intersection and drive aperture openings in the facade. Ideally this would create small openings for when the two surfaces directly face each and the sight line is 90 degrees. So far I have been able to get the…See More

Oct 29, 2012

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Tim Kuhn posted a discussion

Asymmetrical Revolve Ribbing

Hey Guys. I am stuck. I am need to build this model for a project and I was going to rib out this form with grasshopper and cut the pieces on the laser cutter. But I can't get the ribbing to work. I think its because the UV are always parallel to a XYZ plane...Is there there away to force the UV to always be straight? If you have any idea how to help me it would be greatly appreciated...or I'm going to have to find another way to build this thing sadly. Tim See More

Apr 16, 2012

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Tim Kuhn replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Water retention on site.

"Um...either I am missing it or there isn't what I'm looking for. I have made up terrain that I want to flood...the gHowl stuff seems to link satellite data to rhino...which I don't really need. I just want to see which parts of my…"

Apr 6, 2012

taz replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Water retention on site.

"You'll have to ask Luis as it was his creation, but it was also a teaser for gHowl so you could ask for more info in the group: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ghowl"

Apr 5, 2012

Tim Kuhn commented on Luis Fraguada's video

Flooding Shanghai

"do you have the definition to this? I working on a project that this would be very useful for. "

Apr 5, 2012

Tim Kuhn replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Water retention on site.

"I found the drainage ones by Benjamin however I wasn't able to get them to work...got a whole bunch of errors...I think it has to do with the python or becuase I have rhino 4. Also do the video luis posted seems like its what I need. Do you…"

Apr 5, 2012

taz replied to Tim Kuhn's discussion Water retention on site.

"Luis posted this video: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/flooding-shanghai Also a water drainage discussion by Benjamin: http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/drainage-direction-script http://www.grasshopper3d.com/video/drain-algorithm"

Apr 5, 2012

Tim Kuhn posted a discussion

Water retention on site.

Hey guys I am working on a landscape project. I have a topography that I have designed and I'd like to see where water would naturally collect. However I'm not quite sure how to do this. I found this...Infiltration definition. http://www.box.com/shared/8c1tp2325xBut I think this is more of a diagrammatically definition that shows erosion. I want to be able to show the collection of water in a 3d model. If anyone has any insight to this it…See More

Apr 5, 2012

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