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sier to print them on an A3 sheet for example. Very practical, i know, not very exciting, but I'm pretty excited about using Grasshopper to make these types of tasks super efficient.
This was working well with the previous version of grasshopper. I've updated to the new one today and have a problem i can't seem to fix.
I have 10 Floor Plates produced from the Section. I have 16 points on the grid. I wish to use Orient to place to first floor at the first point, the second floor at the second point etc. I assume I have to use 'shortest list' , because i don't want the top floor repeated to fill the points available on the grid. When i use shortest list i only get all the floor plates at the first point.
When i use 'longest list' at orient, the floor plate aligned to the grid point does shift but all the floors are carried with it, and of course all 16 points fill.
If you have any suggestions or time to have a quick look at the attached files it would be great.
As i said this was working perfectly with the last version....perhaps I'm missing something really obvious?
Thanks, Mark.…
o spend some time thinking about it. Also, I would like to see graphic precedents of how you think you will show your project. Please create a pdf.
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stepper motors with an arduino DUE ( 84 MHz clock) so would be faster than an UNO (16 MHz).
The problem : The DUE is selectionned, detected and I can open the port in grasshopper, but when I try to send any mouvement with the stepper component.. isn't moving at all.
Also when I try to read the serial monitor with the generic serial read component is also not reading anything coming from the due card (I tried the programming port and the USB communon port from the DUE).
To now : Sending mouvement with the Accel Stepper library directly with the Arduino IDE works, Wich means that the problem is directly coming from the communication between the Firefly's Grasshopper component and the arduino Due
The due : www.arduino.cc/en/Main/arduinoBoardDueThanks for your time :-)…
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e and i get it. If you have time check the attached papers we published a while ago in relation to the contribution of thermal mass in the reduction of temperature in residential buildings. See the nice contribution of the heavy TM or the lower one for light TM.
As for the solarHeatCapacity, your description (of the 50W) is derived on a 1 Facade/Floor ratio and fully glazed. The only way to reduce it is to increase the ratio (bigger facade area). Which is not recommended (energy losses), but this is a different issue. So, roughly, we can say that 50 is the lower value. If i have less glazing area this number will be higher (right?)
I want to define a value list of "architectural situations", so it is easy to explain and understand. One situation can be:
"Ratio facade/floor 1 & Fully glazed" = 50
"Ratio facade/floor 1 & Half glazed" = 75
"Ratio facade/floor 1.5 & Fully glazed" = 30
"Ratio facade/floor 1.5 & Half glazed" = 50
"Ratio facade/floor 0.75 & Fully glazed" = 70
"Ratio facade/floor 0.75 & Half glazed" = 90
Makes sense for you something like this?
I also defined a value list for the timeConstant like this:
Light Building (Mobile home) = 1Medium-light building (Cement tiles on floor) = 4Semi Heavy Building (Concrete floor + Tiles) = 8Heavy Building (Concrete floors/ceilings + Heavy external and internal walls) = 12
As for the first 5-10 cm effective TM in general my assumption is that you take half of the mass to your space and half to the space above/below you. Will be interesting to do a parametric study on just the thermal mass, uninsulated and insulated to see what the depth limits effectivity will be. Interested in doing such a study together? Can be a nice work even for publishing.
Thanks a lot ... again,
-A.…
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In this case we see a geometrically approach, which doesn’t works efficient, because it required knowing how they behaviors together before, and I think it is not the ‘really behaves’.
To make the structure ‘really behaves’ I tried use kangaroo and the result works very well! As you can see I simply give the 2-set reverse UForce, and then they start to rotate until they found their equilibrium. That means 90 degree rotation. I was wondering what we can do to make a endless-rotation. I am mean 360 degree or more like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4owFczeqqMQ
By the way, I try to give supports which allow a horizontal movement only (Just curious how we could keep the anchor-movement horizontally and in the same layer, for example like usual supports for compression ring…). I use the AnchorXYZ, but Kangaroo-Engine seems don’t accept its output.
So maybe some one knows a better solution?
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Added by Jon to Kangaroo at 7:40am on March 11, 2014
problem later) to fit more shapes that are otherwise won't fit in.
On the example below horizontal rectangle couldn't fit in but its rotated analog could and thus was placed in.
Later, when placed shapes are used to generate frames, because of this rotation, the position of the starting points changes and because of the approach I use to generate the frames some angle values are attached to the wrong corners, this brakes the frame shape and looks like this (on the left the frame of sick shape and on the right the frame of the healthy shape):
Again, this happens because the angle values are assigned to the specific corners (points) and previously rotated shapes get these all messed up:
Easy fix, don't rotate the shapes, problem is, I've already baked a good number of them for later use. I'd like to avoid regeneration because it takes a lot of time and without rotation I constrict the algorithm even more.
Better fix, use a different approach, this is where I'd like to hear suggestions and kicks in a right direction. Please take a look at my definition. It works but I have a feeling like giving an amputee a job of sweeping the floor.
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starting mesh. The geometry of the lines is then modified, through the formfinding routine.
In my second vb component, I need to build an array with 4 columns. Each row represent one face of the mesh (row 0 for face 0, row1 for face 1, ...) and each column represent the number of the edge element. If ABCD is the quad face, column 0 is the number of the edge AB, column 1 is BC, column 2 is CD and column 3 is DA.
So to build this array, I extract the edges of each face with FaceB component then Explode component, and I build the array by comparing each line coming from this to each line coming from MEdges component, with a 2 level nested loop. Here is where I am looking for an efficient way to compare 2 lines...
Is there an easier and faster way to build this array ?…