Grossju - Project 006

I had lots of issues building project 006.  My initial plans were to set two parameters changing an underlying surface which a grid of points would be project onto, connect those points to form faces, and then drive another variable with the area of those faces.  This didn't work as planned.

Chart of Parameters

The initial tile worked fine.  The area of each triangulated face is reduced by the "area reduction" variable, converted to the correct unit, and then multiplied by a simply multiplier.

Unfortunately, as the tile was powercopied, each subsequent powercopy used the areas of the two original faces rather than their own.  I understood this to mean that powercopies cannot reference anything outside of themselves, and a measure item works outside of objects that they reference.  

After referencing the 4 corner points, the powercopy dialog box asks for an area tag which is unavailable to each specific face. 

The extrusion formula

In order to both simplify things and create a working model, I removed any references to areas and set a new extrusion parameter to 1ft.  While building a new model, however, some of the faces were not working properly.

Broken faces

After several attempts at repair, I found that any face set at an angle over 90 degrees in either the X or Y direction would not function.  Therefor, I rebuilt a simple surface to always climb uphill.

Extrusion along face normals

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