Creating a quad grid mesh within two arcs

Good afternoon all,

I'm trying to create a model of the Savill Building in Rhino.

I've made a grasshopper file to make the arcs and create a grid that is good enough for now. I just don't know how to turn it into a mesh that I can then play with in Kangeroo.

I would like to create a regular quad grid mesh, I don't mind losing the smooth curved edges and I guess in some places I'll have to have a triangular grid element.

I spent a while googling this and looking on the forums and I apologise if this type of problem has already been asked.

Grasshopper:

Curves and Surfaces:

Any advice would be really appreciated.

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 17, 2016 at 8:01am

Hi Ciaran,

some of your cells consist of 5 corners, how should these be handled?

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on October 17, 2016 at 8:17am

Assuming you get rid of the pentagons, you can convert a collection of triangle and quad polylines into a single mesh using the [Simple Mesh] component, which only really cares about the number of vertices on the boundary of a shape. See attached.

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Permalink Reply by Ciaran Malik on October 17, 2016 at 12:40pm

You are fantastic, thank you so much. I knew it was going to be something simple but "simple mesh"... I'm feel very embarrassed.

I got it to run through Kangeroo and I have a lovely bouncy dome which I've attached for anyone to play with.

Now I need to find a way to connect the force applied to a graphed shape along its length. If you have any tips I'd appreciate it but you've already helped me loads.

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