Hi Henry,

so, if you only have 4 surfaces to scale, why have you referenced 13
surfaces in the surface input?

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David Rutten
[email protected]
Robert McNeel & Associates


On Feb 12, 5:35 am, hgrosman <[email protected]> wrote:
> David:
>
> Ok. I pared down my file, and I uploaded it as scaleBug.zip for your
> review. The def file contains four different versions of the same
> construct. The two on the right scale up 3 surfaces based on 3
> centers. The two on the right scale up four based on four. The top
> versions contain my original code, which did include only one scale
> factor. The bottom version creates a list of scale factors with one
> integer for each item in the list. As you can see, the 3 version
> works. The 4 version seems to scale each surface around some unknown
> point. Maybe I'm missing something. But I can't figure it out.
>
> I appreciate your help greatly. I love the software.
>
> -henry
>
> On Feb 11, 7:59 am, David Rutten <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi Henry,
>
> > the reason you only get a single surface with Shortest List is
> > probably because you only specify a single scaling factor. Thus, the
> > shortest input list has a length of 1 and there will only be a single
> > output value.
>
> > Scaling works fine here with 16 planes and 16 center points, perhaps
> > when you generate more than 4 points the order get messed up? I'd have
> > to see your file in order to say anything intelligable about it.
>
> > --
> > David Rutten
> > [email protected]
> > Robert McNeel & Associates
>
> > On Feb 11, 2:56 am, hgrosman <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > I have a set of planar surfaces with three sides and a set of centers.
> > > I feed them both to the scale component. When I have 3 or fewer
> > > sufaces and centers, scale works fine. The sufaces scale about the
> > > centers as expected. Also as expected the behavior is the same whether
> > > data matching is set to "longest list" or "shortest list" (the number
> > > of surfaces and number of centers is the same). If, however, I have 4
> > > or moer sufaces and centers, everything goes crazy. When the data
> > > matching is set to "shortest list" the output is only one surface.
> > > When the data matching is set to "longest list" I get four surfaces,
> > > but they seem to be scaled around points other than the centers.
>
> > > I tried to hack up a version of using Scale NU instead of Scale, and I
> > > got similar behavior. Has anyone else had this problem?
>
> > > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> > > -henry

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