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Measuring panels

Measuring panels

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Measuring panels

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- In the last video, we looked at getting our data stream ready to lay out our 3D panels in a flat array that'll make it really easy to send to a CNC router. So in this video I want to continue on in that process by measuring each one of the panels and adding in a spacing factor so that we know how far to move them around. To Grasshopper, I'm going to bring up a Bounding Box component and this is what we use to help us measure the size of each panel. To the content input, this is going to flow out of the partition output that we set up in the last video. So now we get a bounding box for each panel. And we can feed that into a Deconstruct Box component. So that's going to give us the base plane, an X domain, a Y domain, and a Z domain for each of those individual panels. Then using a Deconstruct Domain component, feed in that X domain, that'll give us a start and an end for the X dimension of each panel. And finally, let's bring in an Addition component, so we'll add that end to a…

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