Part 1:
First, I started with a blank file and created the mass floors. I then loaded the parametric tower - twisting simple triangle as a family. Every floor was 10ft in height. I started with a 500ft height. I set the mid-rotation of the building to 50degrees and the top to 80degrees.
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I then proceeded to dynamo to flex the design. I used a custom node to evaluate the height ranges, that used “List.MAP” to give me outputs for three other parameters.
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I selected the “Top Height as the parameter to change. The report I got back was based on the “Gross Floor Area”, “Gross Surface Area”, and “Gross Volume”. I went through a range of heights and various “runs” to see how the program worked. The run I turned in has a range of 200-500ft and intervals of 50ft.
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Part 2:
I started with the tutorial on how to make a mass family. I honestly tried a bunch of shapes and finally settled with a trapezoid figure. In the trapezoid I created constraints on the various measurements, as shown.
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Upon creating the mass family, I inputted it into my mass floor file. I tried to use the code I created for part 1, but for some reason I could not get it to work, so I just created a whole new code file. I tried to do multiple variations of constraints and settled on adjusting the top height and the bottom side A length.
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The difference in the code for changing two parameters was in creating a list of the combinations. I had to pair each of the parameters together, so in total there were eight combinations tested.
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The only difference in the custom node was upacking the pairs of inputs into items.
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These are the results from the code:
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