Tile Cells

Tiles a cell through a cell grid, putting one copy in every cell the grid places, and builds it with the cell's thickness and offset. It does not trim; follow it with Trim Beams to cut it to a Solid.

Inputs

Cell grid Cell Grid

The cell grid that places the cells.

Takes: Cell Grid in Solid, Cell Grid on Surface, Grade Cell Grid, Trim Cell Grid
Cell type Choice

The cell to fill with: a beam or wall cell from the library, a minimal surface, or Wired, the cell wired into Cell (a Custom Cell).

Cell Lattice Cell

The cell to tile, when Cell type is Wired: a Custom Cell.

Takes: Custom Cell
Form Choice

A wall around the surface, a wall moved off it, or the space on one side of it.

Thickness Number

The cell's beam or wall thickness in mm: a number, or a field to grade it. Unset: 1 mm. Read by cells that take a Thickness.

Takes: any block that gives Number (102 blocks)
Offset Number

How far a minimal surface is moved, in mm: a number, or a field. Unset: 0. Read by cells that take an Offset.

Takes: any block that gives Number (102 blocks)
Advanced (2)
True wall thickness Yes/No

Hold the wall closer to the requested thickness: the distance from the surface is read from the field's gradient and its bend along it, instead of the quick estimate. Measured against the true distance for walls up to 40 % of the cell, the wall's share of the cell is off by at most 0.7 percentage points on a Gyroid, 2.4 on Schwarz P, 3.8 on Neovius, 4.2 on Schwarz D, 6.2 on Lidinoid and 6.5 on Split P. Costs eight extra field evaluations per point, so lattices using this cell build slower. Off by default.

Orientation Choice

Which of the cell's own u, v, w axes lands on x, y and z. UVW keeps the cell as authored.

Output

Lattice

Used by: any block that takes Lattice (98 blocks)

Properties

Values the block gives besides its output. The editor lists them under Properties, and an input can read one by reference.

Beams List of Beam

Every beam, each with its own properties.

Solid Solid

All the thickened beams merged into one Solid; beams with no thickness yet are the distance to their segments.

List List of Lattice

This lattice in a Lattice List of one.

BeamGraph Beam Graph

The beams, vertices and thicknesses, without the lattice around them.

Graph Lattice

The beams and vertices alone, with no thickness.

BoundingBox Bounding Box

The axis-aligned extent of the beams' vertices.

EdgeCount Number

How many beams the lattice has.

LineSegments List of Curve

Each beam as a line segment.

VertexCount Number

How many vertices the lattice has.

VertexValencies List of Number

For each vertex, the number of beams that end there.

Vertices List of Point

The position of every vertex.

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