FAILING simple multi-storey geometry / model sketch - HELP!

[MichaelDonn]

Hi

I am trying to demonstrate how a 12 storey urban building might be sketched with the potential to have different Window-to-wall ratios and different shading on each type of floor.

RHINO Layers:

Script design

Ground floor is retail activity with 3 “shops” drawn on plan in the Retail layer in Rhino

There are 9 (adjustable) Office floors above this with the same plan size and shape as the ground floor drawn as a rectangle on the Office layer and via the HB Skeleton command they become 4 offices and a core - HB move creates 9 copies at the interfloor extruded height

There is a layer of apartments and a layer of penthouses atop the offices - brought in by the same skeleton process as the office floors but with no core - to allow light and air to both sides of all apartments

Different Apertures by ratio are assigned to each type of activity.

BUT

ONLY the apartment and penthouse floors reveal apertures

There appear to be no errors along the way

This occurred last week, and this is me building everything from scratch again - just to test my logic ..

All suggestions welcomed.

Michael

Structured start.gh (68.8 KB)

Basic_Model_noContext.3dm (148.0 KB)

[TrevorFedyna]

@MichaelDonn can you save 3dm as rhino 7 I was going to give a once over but couldn’t open the file

best
-trevor

[MichaelDonn]

Basic_Model_noContext_Rhino_7.3dm (144.8 KB)

Thank you so much @TrevorFedyna for the offer.

I am unsure about the downscaling - do I need to downscale the .gh file as well?

M

[TrevorFedyna]

@MichaelDonn the GH component is fine I checked that one already! The only time the gh file can be an issue is if there are R8 only components on the canvas. checking now

[edpmay]

Hi @MichaelDonn

All of those lower breps are ‘underground’ because of where the Rhino model’s 0-0 plane is located:

unground surfaces cannot host apertures, and so fail the can_host_apeture() check, which results in no apertures.

best,

@edpmay

[MichaelDonn]

Thank you SO much. I was working off an imported 3D city model…where typically the bottom of the model is above sea level. And, key lesson - I did not check…

lesson learned - and a story to tell in class today.

M