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Measuring tolerances in Kangaroo physics simulations

Measuring tolerances in Kangaroo physics simulations

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Measuring tolerances in Kangaroo physics simulations

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Let's say that I'm planning to build one of the forms I'm simulating in Kangaroo in real physical reality. Among many other considerations I need to take is tolerances. And luckily, we can easily measure and change our designs right in Kangaroo before we get to fabrication. So got the exercise file 005-tolerances-begin.gh open in Grasshopper, and just a blank Rhino file. What I'd like to do here is to extract the transformed mesh from our solver, measure each one of its edges, then get the smallest and the largest edge and measure the distance between them. We could imagine maybe, rather than fabric, we might want to build this tensile structure out of something rigid like steel. Okay. So let's first work on extracting that mesh. And if we look at our solver component, the output as a tree contains two different branches. One contains all of the vertices of our transformed mesh, one contains an actual mesh. So let's go up to the Sets component menu, and under Tree, we're looking for a…

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