populating a list of vertxs with different circles radius

Hi, i'm wondering how to deal with this one.....

i like to create a grid of point.....or to get this grid from dividing some surface....then to take those vertexes and over them to put a circles with radiuses i choose from a list....

it means that i have a a table with 3 columns....1 is for the vertex number 2..the circle radius...... and then.... circle 1 radius 5 circle 2 radius 10......how do I?????

thnx a lot

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on May 3, 2011 at 3:51am

Hi Piter,

The simple answer is to put a list of points into a circle component along with a list of radii.

However sometimes this is not so straight forward. Data Matching is a big part of getting results you weren't expecting. So each input must be of a similar nature to get the right results. Either Grafting or Flattening are usually all that is needed. Grafting is the act of creating an extra branch for each item in collection. Flatten is the act of removing all branches and putting every item together.

There are two examples below to get the same results. First is to Generate everything in Grasshopper:

Results:

Secondly: if you already have generated this data in a table you could access it from being pasted into a panel and use the string tools in the sets tab to get the data into a readable form. There are also other tools available to get data from txt files or read directly from a spreadsheet.