Latest version of Gridshell Components

by Alex Baalham

Oct 17, 2012

I've cleaned up Gridshell Components and put together a few example GH files to get started. The inputs and outputs have been rationalised to speed up the modelling process.

 

I've also added an 'Unroll Curves' component which measures the geodesic curvature of a curve on a surface and produces the 2D 'unrolled' curve. Geodesic curves (e.g. those produced with the Shortpath command) unroll to straight lines. It is now possible to generate fabrication patterns for any arrangement of straight or curved laths over a surface.

 

The latest GHA:

Gridshell Components.GHA

(note: developed with GH 0.8.0066, still to be tested with 0.9.xxxx)

 

Example GH files:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

 

Reference surface for use with the above:

Gridshell%20Components%20-%20Reference%20Surface.3dm

  • Alex Baalham

    View of a gridshell and unrolled laths generated using the latest version of Gridshell Components:

    Oct 7, 2012

  • Rafat Ahmed

    brilliant bro, u did great job

    Oct 23, 2012

  • Manuel Burgos

    Hello Alex! thank you for sharing that great work you did! 

    Currently I am developing my thesis on architecture and I am working with a structure like Mannheim's by Frei Otto. I found your files and i have been trying to use them for my project but I had some problems during the process. I was wondering if you could please take a look at it and give me some advices about how I could fix it.

    I hope its not too much trouble!

    Thank you very much and congratulations again!!

    Manuel

    Files Folder

    May 19, 2014

  • Patrick Scott

    Hi Alex I had the same problem. the tspline components return an error. 

    May 28, 2014

  • johnnyUtah05

    Hi, great component!

    I am having trouble with the example file as the split tree is failing. 

    Jul 22, 2014

  • HEEN

    Nice Its working :D

    Nov 15, 2014