XYZ Cells by Face

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I have created two custom nodes for creating XYZ cell grids on a surface face.



  • XYZ Triangle Grid by Face

  • XYZ Quadrangular Grid by Face


These are available as a Dynamo package. More to come... :)


-Nate




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in revit the surface domains are created differently between planar and non-planar surfaces. could be the surface domain node does not deal well with planar surfaces.

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weird thing is that it works fine with non planar faces! with correct scale.

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thanks for this great work. I have an issue maybe due to some localization in Revit. it works for me but there's a scale problem: the grid is very small regarding the original geometry. any idea? thx!

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Nate is a superstar!

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thanks! Made some more and updated the package...


http://www.theprovingground.org/2013/09/porting-panels-for-dynamo.html



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Nathan,



Amazing job!



Thank you.

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Is there a solution to the issue Julien identified?

I’m running into the same thing and can’t read Python enough to understand what the custom node is doing to reverse engineer a solution.

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Matt - is there a documentation for what is the difference between planar surface domain and non-planar?

I ran into this issue, and yesterday I did a separate test for planar/non-planar surfaces - attached the screen captures.

So how do we map the planar surface domain to get the correct results?

Please advise.

Thanks!

 

DOMAIN_2

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With a planar surface I would project each point towards the surface, if you get an intersection coordinate you keep that point, otherwise you filter it out. Will that solve your problem?

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@Michael Kirschner - thanks for reply.

My struggle is: how do I “know” that a face is planar or not in order to take one path or another? as of now I use “select face” built in node.

How do I query the selected surface and check if it is planar or not? If I can do that, then I can pass through a boolean and split the solution in two approaches (one that I used and

in case face is planar, use what you suggested).

How about a non-simply connected region? will your approach work in that case - see screen capture.

Thanks for your comments!

non_simply_connected_region

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The Clockwork library (by Andreas Dieckmann) has a Surface.IsPlanar custom node that you could try.