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🚨 Custom Feature Alert 🚨 Query Pattern
Query Pattern performs a feature pattern, but swaps out the input query every time it loops, allowing you to perform the same operations on very different faces, edges, bodies, etc. Here's how it works!
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Smart idea, Evan. You might also consider allowing array of query inputs as iteration input, so that it could consume multi-entity seed queries
Thanks, Konstantin! Do you mean so that you could, for example, have one seed for an edge and another for a face or something? What scenario do you have in mind?
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For example if the seed would need to be a union of edges for fill surface feature and would want to poppulate it across array of edge loops that wouldn't be possible currently, because its iterating through individual entities
Once again, @EvanReese adds amazing functionality that I'd love to see in the first party tools. There's a lot to digest here, but I'm looking forward to doing things that used to be more something that you needed Rhino+Grasshopper to do.
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When I did the update to Query Variable Plus to add qEverything I thought about putting qNothing in there as bait to see what @EvanReese would do with setting a query variable to nothing. I pictured something like this.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | MeddlerAdd qSomething and we'll see
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@S1mon Yep! Try pairing it with face curves to split it to make a grid and iterate on that
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OOH, that'd be a slick way to get around some frames limitations too where complex junctions aren't supported out of the box. I gotta try that.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | Meddler@EvanReese I could see a version of attractor pattern that just creates a series of points or mate connectors for the centers of some feature which could then be patterned with query pattern.
The Face curves idea is great for things that want to be in a grid like pattern on a surface, but to get the triangular pattern we’ll need something else.
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