Dynamo and space trusses: It's all in the Zip Lists

When posting yesterdays picture I thought that an elegant solution for my spaghetti monster of a definition was far off, but thanks to Colin McCrone and his awesome Zip lists node, I'm able to share it with you today!

I think it's big letdown that the node at this moment have just been downloaded a mere 22 times.. Well I'm going to show it off some of it's uses here, and I hope that it will be a eye openener for anyone operates with trusses at least.

See, a stumbled upon a problem when entering the world of parametrized trusses. the diagonal beams or braces..
I don't think I'm going to explain it fully in text but have look at what I used to do in some way or: another:

It works, but will still create a larger definition than needed.

So, enter Zip list node.

This node zip together two lists in every other fashion. Like this: {A,B,C,D} and {1,2,3,4} as inputs will return {A,2,C,D}

Resulting in the same definition looking like this:

A bit tidier I think.

So to the truss as I've showed you in the former post. It's still a rather large definition so if you got any suggestions, please message me! :) Also I could have shortened it down quite a bit by using code blocks for the most part, but I tend to lose track if the definition get too "programmy"

Part 1:

 Part 2:

Part 3:

In this example I've imported it to Revit as beams, I guess the next step would be to import it to Robot and get it calculated! :)

As always I haven't described in text what I've done, I am more of a show and not-so-much-tell guy I guess. However, if you have any questions feel free to contact me!

And a Screencast as usual:
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