Hello,
I was hoping to get some insight on constraints and why my scenario is failing with them.
I have a grid of hexagons whose position is determined by line segments. The line segment lengths are controlled by 2 variables. This is so that I can tweak the spacing and hexagon radius quickly and consistently.
The “rows” of hexagons sit on the endpoints of the horizontal line segments.
The “columns” sit at the mid points of the vertical line segments.
When adjusting the horizantal line lengths, the grid of hexagons would distort in unexpected ways. The expected result is a “reduction” in the column spacing due to smaller line segments.
I tried adding perpendicular constraints to the line segments, hoping they would move together and maintain 90 degrees. This just resulted in a conflicting constraints message when trying to adjust the horizantal line length variable. But im unable to see why.
Is what I want to achieve possible? And which constraints do you think are conflicting? I have some midpoint and coincident constraints. the coincident ones are connecting the vertical and horizontal lines. Im guessing it’s the latter?
thats not really what im referring to. im familiar with the pattern tool. My use case requires independent control over horizantal placement, vertical placement, and hexagon radius parameters.
Yes thats how I understood maybe not, that was the variable setup, if you change the length 1 everything moves accordingly, also the reason on my version has outer ring it controls the between distance.
But now I think what you want to do is independently control each direction that one would be intersting.
yes, precisely. the row spacing and column spacing are independent controls in my sketch.
another weird thing. possibly a bug, but im unable to delete any of the constraints in my sketch now. if I select all constraints and click on delete, I get the conflicting constraint error. which doesnt make any sense, im trying to delete every constraint I have, not add a new one.
