this, you'll have no horizontal force at the roller, but you will have it at the pinned support. If you wouldn't, then the structure will be displaced.
Usually, in 2 dimensional structures, if you want to know if an articulated structure is isostatic (as opposed to hyperstatic, which is what you have right now) is to use the following formula:
b+c-2·n=0;
b being the number of bars, c the number of constraints you have and n the number of nodes. In your case: b=19, c=3 (displacements constrained in X, Z at your pinned support and only constrained in Z at your roller support) and n=11, so: 19+3-2·11=0.
I recommend you to download the app SW Truss, as it's very useful to check your results instantly.…
Just spend 10 minutes watching youtube tutorial of Vray 3 and repeat:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRWANWkTouY&t=191s
Else-wise you will not learn anything and spend 10x more time because you do not know what you are doing...
For plants you can download textured proxies from here:
http://www.food4rhino.com/app/scatter
Grasshopper vray integration is also straight forward.
Chaos group did good job for user friendly interface.…
IF the platform is "unsuitable" (or there's others more suitable) then disproportional amount of effort is obviously required for the same sort of result (or "similar"). And well ... er ... if the design goal is solid modelling ... chances are that a surface modeller MAY classify as unsuitable (but may not depending on the case).
Given the opportunity: Personal data: strictly AEC sector, AECOSim/Microstation (25 years, main BIM/General CAD purpose app) + various vertical Bentley Systems AEC apps + Generative Components (~10 years, main Parametric app) + CATIA/NX (20 years, main MCAD app) + Quest3D (~10 years, main VR app) + ... + you name it.
UGLY news: I run a practice > this means that I'm used in evaluating/addressing problems having TEAMS in mind, budget, alternatives, deadlines, clients, study guarantees, claims, clauses ... > this means that I'm often very bad/off-topic if an one man show task requires some opinion/solution/workflow.
Anyway ...
... with regard your issue I'll provide an indicative approach after this w/e ... but chances are that would be carried over exclusively without native components.
best, Peter
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n objects that are too small to see clearly. To fix this I found the following post: http://www.danantonielli.com/adobe-app-scaling-on-high-dpi-displays-fix/
This is written for Photoshop, but the method works perfectly for other applications (Rhino is one I just tweaked.) But GH poses a problem because it has no EXE file. So I'm wondering if this method could work if the name of Grasshopper's executable file (whatever it is) was substituted for the EXE name of a normal program.…
Added by Birk Binnard at 12:04pm on March 15, 2017