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I feel old now

No, member wanted to extract vertical lines from from cylinder on the fly - nothing fancy : )

pm request - create splines from primitive mesh edges, vertical only (crude) 200_Vertical_Lines.c4d

@HappyPolygon Which version are you running?

Nodes are your friend, is this what you are after? comma_counter.c4d

Sorry, diidn't have time to optimize the scene. You are aware that there is a stairs asset available which you can use? : )

Phylotaxis proto 🙂 02_phyllotaxis.c4d

@LuiNogueira I haven't checked your setup in detail, but here it seems to work, check the scene stair generator_new_select_facing.c4d

Select facing is the issue. Luckily it is an asset which you can convert to group from asset menu. Inside there is a "Proposed build Selection". Propagate the scope from append node and replace iterate indexes with iterate collection as shown

Zipper setup : ) 211_Zipper.c4d

Circle to circle intersection 🙂 (pm request) The setup finds the midpoint 209_circle2circle_intersection.c4d

For recursion use loop carried value and memory nodes. They both have access to previous value

To depict a boundary 🙂

Some circle packing 🙂 183_Circle_Packing.c4d

Quite a big file to grab 🙂 I can't answer your questions specifically, but in general advice only. Simualtions are simply expensive. As far as best practices go you are on the right track. There is space to improve and the first thing would be to see if you can do the simulation without fillets on the cube (proxy setup) and use that as a driver for high poly setup. Try some margin and explore possibility of turning of self collisions. Additionally, using project setting tab to reduce the calculation if possible is always good idea. Hope this helps

Some fun with Fracturing 🙂 147_Pipe_Mesher(MG).c4d

Chladni patterns! 202_Chladni_Plate.c4d

Drag the ports from column into graph : ) Floating port is like a shortcut to actual input port

Drag it into graph 🙂

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pm request Resample spline : ) 206_Resample_spline.c4d

Unfortunate, but yes, for the moment, cutting functionality is not there so what you are after will require rebuilding topology which can be tricky, however, given that you will be seemingly working with quads it could be easier than antiicipated.

@Lasse Leon Sure, send it via pm, it will be treated confidentially, I can see with the devs if there are room for improvements

No way to say without scene file. If you are relucatant to post you cna also send it via pm

Bell curve asset 🙂 Thgere are some nice controls for it 89_Bell_Curve.c4d