Find continuous beams

[theshysnail]

Hello everyone,
I was looking for a logic to build upon in Dynamo in order find out what beams in the model are continuous? Any suggestion as to what could be an approachable way?

[Hyunu_Kim]

If geometry of beam has more than 1 solid, it’s continuous.

[GavinCrump]

Use element.solids and then count the number of objects in each list. As was said if its higher than 1, its continuous.

[theshysnail]

Happy birthday @Hyunu_Kim

Thanks for the response guys.
I tried the geometry, but it’s a single solid.

I guess, element faces could be a differentiating factor, but they are so random (6 to 14)?

[akhilbaredi]

@theshysnail try with surfaces…

[GavinCrump]

Maybe try the topologic package - it triggers errors when trying to form a cell from a form that is not a single closed solid. You could use that to mask the original elements (error means it’s a beam with more than one solid).