WHERE ARE SIMPLE TRANSFORMATION OR TRANSLATION COMMANDS?

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 29, 2010 at 4:15am

Hi Tasos,

Array, Copy etc. is all done with the Move component. If you want to create a rectangular array, you'll have to create a grid of motion vectors, then plug them all into Move. How you create this grid is up to you, there are plenty of possible solutions.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by idtasos on March 29, 2010 at 4:38am

Could you please help me with how to create this grid of motion vectors. I knew about the move-copy component but i dont know how to apply this simultaneously.

Thanks!

Tasos

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on March 29, 2010 at 5:05am

You could use a Rectangular Grid component to quickly create an array of vectors (points and vector are interchangeable in most cases). Or you could create the vectors from scratch by using a [Series] component and plug it into the X & Y inputs of a [Vector from XYZ] component. Just be sure to switch the data matching on the component to "Cross Reference" and you'll get a grid of points.

You could also use the [Divide Surface] component to create a deformed grid of vectors.

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David Rutten
david@mcneel.com
Poprad, Slovakia

Permalink Reply by Andres Gonzalez on March 29, 2010 at 9:01am

Make sure you make the GRID first!

One idea may be this one or use the GRID components that come with GH too.

http://web.me.com/rhino3dtv/GH/GH_07_15_Vector_Grid_Series.html


Then, use the MOVE component as your COPY / ARRAY command in Rhino...
Connect all the points from the GRID to the MOVE component... it works very nice!


http://web.me.com/rhino3dtv/GH/GH_11_16_XForm_Move.html

Hope this helps

Andres