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Get Project Grid

Get the project grid

Written by Holly Conrad Smith

Use this to pull in your project's reference grid. For example, aligning generated massing or unit layouts to a column grid or site-wide planning grid instead of hand-drawing the alignment every time.

Category: Project

Kind: Project

Description: get the project grid

Inputs

None

Outputs

Name

Abbreviation

Type

Access

Description

bearing

B

Number

Item

the bearing of the grid, in radians

distance

D

Number

Item

the spacing distance of the grid

origin

O

Feature

Item

the origin point of the grid

Warnings and errors

Message

Cause

Fix

Get project grid error: No grid found in project boundary

The project boundary has no grid set.

Set a grid on the project boundary, then run the flow again.

How to

  1. Add the Get Project Grid node.

  2. The outputs describe your project's grid. Feed "bearing" and "distance" into Grid Fill or Rectangular Array to align generated geometry to it.

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