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Francesco Ranaudo replied to Lara Alegria Mira's discussion converting the rigid connections to pinned in a space frame in the group karamba

"ok...probably (but i'm really not sure of what i'm saying, so be kind with me!! :D ) it is because when you set all rotations free, even if you've got a support, this is disconnected (see the manual at page 42). try to release the…"

May 30

Fabian Posadas left a comment for Francesco Ranaudo

"I can see your a System of a down fan! "

May 30

Francesco Ranaudo replied to Lara Alegria Mira's discussion converting the rigid connections to pinned in a space frame in the group karamba

"ok...tell me if i get the point: you need to make a 3d truss-like structure in which elements can be bent and the nodes can't transfer bending moments but when you set all starts and ends releases you get a mechanism. is it right? if it is so,…"

May 30

Francesco Ranaudo replied to Lara Alegria Mira's discussion converting the rigid connections to pinned in a space frame in the group karamba

"Hi lara, i'm not sure that i've understood very well your question, but if you want to make a pinned connection you can use this…"

May 30

Francesco Ranaudo commented on Alex Baalham's blog post New version of Gridshell Components

"thanks for your reply Alex. however still nothing...there isn't the component group in the ribbon. :("

Apr 27

David Rutten replied to Francesco Ranaudo's discussion GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

"One thing I could so is sort of stitch images together into bigger tiles, reducing the amount of manual work needed to be done in case the ultimate stitching fails. -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

Apr 16

Francesco Ranaudo replied to Francesco Ranaudo's discussion GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

"ok, I suspected it! I tried with photoshop collage automate function but times are enormous. thank you the same! "

Apr 16

David Rutten replied to Francesco Ranaudo's discussion GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

"The dimensions of the exported target image are basically the document bounding box times the zoom factor. You cannot get a lower zoom factor than 1.0 I think if you want to create an image bigger than the allowed memory consumption on your OS, you…"

Apr 16

Francesco Ranaudo replied to Francesco Ranaudo's discussion GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

"ok, you get the point! i tried at first with a 8500x4500 ca. image (so it should be about 30 tiles) with the old version and it works. So i dubled it (= about 120 tiles) always with the old version and it still works. but if I duble it again (about…"

Apr 16

David Rutten replied to Francesco Ranaudo's discussion GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

"Ok, each tile is 1000x1000 pixels. Every pixel consists of 4 channels (red, green, blue and alpha) and each channel requires a single byte to be stored. Thus, a single tile requires 10002 × 4 = 4 million bytes or 4 megabytes. One thousand…"

Apr 16

Francesco Ranaudo replied to Francesco Ranaudo's discussion GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

"[EDIT] one thousand"

Apr 16

Francesco Ranaudo replied to Francesco Ranaudo's discussion GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

"thanks for the reply! mmm...probably about one hundred. my verision is 0.9.0014 "

Apr 16

David Rutten replied to Francesco Ranaudo's discussion GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

"How many tiles are there in a typical export? Also, what version are you using? -- David Rutten david@mcneel.com Poprad, Slovakia"

Apr 16

Francesco Ranaudo posted a discussion

GrasshopperImageSticher crashes

Hi all,When I try to export a Hi-Res Image I get an error splash-screen (see attachement).so I went in the temp folder and there I can see the single pieces but they're not blend together.What to do?Thanks!PS: i'm working on Rhino 5 64-bit, windows 8See More

Apr 16

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Francesco Ranaudo added a discussion to the group karamba

Large deformation component

Hi all,I read the manual but I still don't understand exactly how the large deformation component works. why at the end of the iterations it clears all the stresses inside the beams?Probably what it lacks to me is a deep knowledge of non-linear anlysis...can someone guide me to some paper or book where i can understand better this kind of analysis?Thx!!FrancescoSee More

Apr 15

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Francesco Ranaudo commented on Alex Baalham's blog post New version of Gridshell Components

"sorry alex, but it doesn't work for me! Rhino 5 64bit...is it supported? Thx!"

Apr 15