Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting tips and tricks for Asterisk

General Tips

Asterisk is connecting many different services together. It's been designed to take a set of inputs and outputs that's relatively similar to what is possible.

Generally, check your document units. Very large or very small masses may throw errors in Asterisk.

Converting Geometry

If you have multiple massings that you'd like to join together, there are a few ways to convert them.

Before you get started, try BooleanUnion to merge the massings together as one massing.

Boundary Representations

  1. Select all massings that you'd like to join together

  2. Use the command MeshtoNURB to convert all the massings to nurbs surfaces

  3. Type M to move the original massings away (if you have not deselected them, your original massings should already be selected)

  4. Select the NURB surfaces

  5. Type Join to join all the surfaces together

  6. Type MergeAllFaces to combine all coplanar surfaces into one surface. (See http://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/5/help/en-us/commands/mergeallfaces.htm for more details)

Meshes

  1. Select the meshes

  2. Type Join to join the meshes

  3. Type Weld to merge vertices in the same spot (See http://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/5/help/en-us/commands/weld.htm for more details)

The mesh procedure can be used to process a .dxf export from Revit.

There are similar commands in Grasshopper as well.

Rhino

Grasshopper

  • Grasshopper requires, at a minimum, a massing representation. The rest of the fields will be default values taken from the web interface.

If your iteration isn't sending

  • Make sure that your Core geometry is not flush and protrudes slightly beyond both the top and bottom of your Massing geometry . Sometimes, there are issues with the boolean union of the two.

Sometimes, you'll just need to clear the iterations and try again

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