Divide line and place items

[AlanW]

Hi, in the attached the items  (posts) are divided equally along a single 3D line, but when I try on a multiple 3D line hte spacing is not even. Any suggestions.

 

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[Marissa Farrell]

Hey Alan!

The problem is that the wire going into your Divide Curve node has 3 values going into 'divs', which essentially runs the network 3 times, so it's dividing that curve into 11, then 13, then 11 again.

This can be remedied by adding in an 'add list' node (from Basic Math) between the 'int' and 'Divide Curves' node, as shown in the attached image.

(I would upload a file, but I'm working in 2017 primarily and exporting back could show some upcoming changes you aren't allowed to see yet )

 

 

Let me know if this helps!

[Kevin McAllister]

@MarissaFThis is a great node to know about. Do you know why Alan's network sometimes produces a closed poly even when the parameters always remain the same?

Kevin

[Marissa Farrell]

I haven't seen it produce a closed poly in my testing, are you always in the same view? For 2016 we recommend always running networks from Top/Plan.

You can always override that using the Set Closed nodes in the Poly categories. (Technically those nodes are interchangeable, they're basically identical in their scripts. I'll try to remember to simplify them into one later on.)

[Kevin McAllister]

8 minutes ago, MarissaF said:

I haven't seen it produce a closed poly in my testing, are you always in the same view? For 2016 we recommend always running networks from Top/Plan.

It occurs in Top/Plan, but not in any consistent way. In about 30 tries of running the script the poly has been closed maybe 4-5 times.

KM

[Marissa Farrell]

Well if you run into any sort of reproducible case, let me know, and I'll be sure to pass it along.

[AlanW]

Thanks, So simple when you know how, and yes it closed a few times. Thanks again.

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