Structural path_Closest vertices in multiple levels.

Hello,

I am trying to define a function that conects vertices of multiple floorplates finding the closest vertice in the neighbour level (one up or one donwn) to generete a sort of force lines. Somehow as the image I show bellow, but where the direction of these lines depends of the geometry of each floorplate.

My intention would be to create theses lines to find the shortest path/most veritcal path, and then if the inclination of the lines exeds a certain degree, just make them before.

In the image I show, the closest point is calculated to the selected item. What I need is to evaluate the distance to the last point found as a closes point. It is an iteration and the input point to evaluate the distance is changing every step...

I don't think that is very difficult to do but the problem I have is that I don't see how to make this changing input evalutating each time the next path of the tree...

Has anyone any idea?

Thank you all!

Ramiro

ps: Great program, great website!

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exemple line force.3dm, 50 KB

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Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on April 25, 2013 at 12:45pm

Is this what you mean?

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Up and Down CP.gh, 8 KB

Permalink Reply by Ramiro Chiriotti on April 27, 2013 at 8:24am

Thank you for the answer!

The definition is connecting closest points as I need, but I don't understand how exacly works, which is the diference between the blue and the red lines? And how could I do to join curves are contiguous to be able then to create polylines or s-plines from their points.

Another issue, is how to implement this deffinition if there are few closed curves in each level (see atached files) and not just one like in the file atached before.

Thank you for your help!

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