Subdividing a cuboid into individual cuboids

Geometry
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Hi all,

Is there a way to subdivide a cuboid into multiple cuboids (eg 3x3x3 into 27 1x1x1 cube just like a rubik’s cube but not necessarily have equal sides, can be 3x3x4, etc)…

I have done this only in 2d where a surface is subdivided into square panels…

Thanks in advance for your help - I am very new to Dynamo geometry…

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Hi @archjahzzy

After you divide surface in 2d you can use surface.thickness node or Curve.Exrtrude node to get solids from it.

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Hi @Kulkul, thank you! I will try that (don’t have my pc atm)

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Hi Kulkul,

Using the Surface.Thickness just created one solid surface without subdivisions… Curve.Extrude doesn’t work for some reason…

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@archjahzzy Could you please show us your complete graph with all the previews visible.

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Hi!

I have generated a solid mass with movable spherical voids to create different form options…
However, I need to further refine this by subdividing the solid into cubes with LxWxH that can be varied, too. And all cubes that intersect by more than 50% with the spherical void will be deleted…

How do I go about this… Or am I in the right direction at all?

Thank you!

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Hi @Kulkul, this is the graph… sorry, later I will turn on all previews… I am out having lunch. Thanks!

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Hi @Kulkul,

This is how I ma

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de the surface with panels -

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Hi @archjahzzy

It works as expected:

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Ohhh… I seee! I used Curved.Extrude instead of Curve.ExtrudeAsSolid…

So… now, just another thing. Instead of one single cuboid along the z axis, I want it to be a series of cubes such that they are divided into my panel size… However, using the range values as input to the distance gives me an error…

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@archjahzzy What does the error says?

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Hi @Kulkul,

I managed to do that with the voids excluded, too. Thank you so much!

To further explain my previous question… here is the outcome of the original extrusion with a single z-value:

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But I want to add grids so that these cuboids will be further subdivided into small cubes… I thought I could do it by using 0…1…#1.2 as codeblock range value but it gives me error…

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Am I using the wrong node or writing the wrong code?

Thanks

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@archjahzzy Could you please drop here your dyn file.

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here it is… thanks!

Actual_v2.dyn (921.2 KB)

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@archjahzzy Is this what your looking for?

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Hi, I think the concept is the same…

But I’m thinking of using the 2 spheres along the longer sides as attractor objects (points used will have x&y value equal to spheres’ midpoints but z value will be equal to the spheres’ radii)

I still need to figure it out… But thanks anyways. I will create another post for attractor points if I can’t find any helpful posts…

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@archjahzzy Don’t forget to mark this post as solved. You’re welcome!

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I’ve also done something similar by building the individual cubes. They have to be fairly regular this way but it still works.

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