grid fill

Use the grid fill transform to fill a polygon with evenly-spaced points on a grid.

Grid Fill is a more complex transform. Grid Fill can be used to create structural column grids, or anything that is evenly spaced on a grid. Use Random Fill for “natural” use cases, like a forest.

Category: Dendrogram Kind: Operation Description: Legacy dendrogram node for grid fill

Inputs

Name	Abbreviation	Type	Access	Description
Input	I	Feature	Item	The input data
Transform	T	Object	Item	Transform controls (overridden by individual parameters)

Outputs

Name	Abbreviation	Type	Access	Description
X Line	X	Object	List	The xline output
Y Line	Y	Object	List	The yline output
Outline	O	Object	List	The outline output
Point	P	Object	List	The point output
Merged	M	Object	List	The merged output

How To

Draw a polygon or rectangle
Add the grid fill
1. add the grid fill transform
2. Click “edit defaults’ to set the starting values
Adjust the grid fill settings in the Properties Palette
Attach a write features to the outputs you want.

You may need to further process the outputs by adding offset polygon or Usages to the geometries.

Here, an offset polygon is added to the points to turn them into a column-like model:

Grid Fill Settings

Points
- Toggle point generation (for output)
- Toggle points generation on the boundary
- Toggle points on an exclusion boundary
Lines
- Toggle generate Lines (for output)
- Toggle break lines
Spacing
- Set side to side (X) spacing
- Set top to bottom (Y) spacing
- Add additional rows in either direction at another spacing
Offset
- Set side to side (X) offset
- Set top to bottom (Y) offset
Reference
- Set Offset from the boundary (set to 0 if no offset)
- Select a reference edge to control which direction the algorithm solves from

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Grid Fill Outputs

Grid Fill is a more complex transform. It can have multiple outputs depending on what you’ve toggled on.