ements between mid axes of elements ( being perpendicular to both). On the attached image, the links are the small elements connectiong nodes 4 to 5, 6 to 7 and 8 to 9. All nodes (1 to 9 including 1', 2', 3') are defined in Karamba as fixed supports but nodes 1,1', 2, 2', 3, and 3' have hinges added with the beam joint component. The freed rotations are shown on the figure.
I wondered if that was the correct way of defining such a structure in Karamba bearing in mind that nodes 1', 2' and3' are free nodes in the reality.
Thanks again for your help !
Yousef…
olume a factor of x bigger, the scaling factor needs to be x^(1/3) which is the same as the cube-root of x.
In this case we don't just want to make the volume x bigger, we need to get a specific volume, so the first step is to compute x, which is the Target volume divided by the Current volume.…
53 → 53 → 63 → 74 → 74 → 84 → 9
As you can see from the above list the connection sequence comes in waves of three, where each group of similar indices on the left is associated with a group of three incrementing indices on the right.
Some combination of Series components will probably generate this list, but it'll only work for the first ring, the second one will need a different connection pattern. It is perhaps better to just encode the integer pairs by hand. But then you cannot change your mind about the number of sides later.…
Added by David Rutten at 10:39am on October 21, 2015