ases where you have angled shades and the component is doing trigonometry to figure out how close the blinds could be to the glass without touching. I just re-wrote the code so that, now you cannot have the blinds closer to the glass than half of the blind slat depth, which seems to be the limit of what E+ will tolerate.
Also, E+ does not like it when you input blinds that are perfectly at 90 degrees so I changed the component to automatically write out shades at 89 degrees when you connect up 90.
Using the Shade geometry as context worked perfectly for me and I am not sure what was wrong in your situation.
See your working file attached.
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So if you type rad(90), what result do you get?
Added by Vicente Soler at 9:46am on November 22, 2009
square and rotated the arcs around those new points as the base plane. I used a Series set to get the arc to rotate in 90 degree steps. So it rotates 90 in one grid square, 180 in the next, 270 in the next, 360 in the next and then just repeats this pattern. (see second image)
The third image is my GH script.
What I WANT is for the arcs to rotate in 90 degree steps at random, not in the same order over and over again, from one grid square to the next. I tried using the Random set, but am not having any luck. Can anyone help me? I am super new to this, so assume I know nothing. Thanks!
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me in 19 different pipeline components. Marginally better, but I'll still need to do this operation approx. 80 times...gulp.
Here's a wishlist request for David: expose string inputs in the Geometry Pipeline for Layer and Name. If I had that, I could change one string to swap my whole geometry set! (My layers have names like "B1 red rail", "B1 blue rail" etc., then the next time I'll want "B2 red rail", "B2 blue rail" etc.)
BTW, I'm happy to script something in C# if it will help: maybe I could write something like the Geometry Pipeline that takes a string input for layer name? Hmmm...
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