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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

This errors with "No grid found in project boundary" if your project doesn't have a grid defined yet.

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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