Twisted Parametric Facade with Sverchok for Blender

It's been a minute since I opened Sverchok but I was asked to try putting together a quick facade setup. I was reminded how different SV is to our current Geometry Nodes.

Working in SV requires an understanding of lists and handling data whereas GN is all captured on explicit geometry and our manipulation of that data is quite abstracted really. I think this has a clear benefit of being vastly more accessible (as demonstrated by the rapid uptake of GN in the community) but the shortcoming is that "low level" is never quite low level enough. Without the developers providing all the nodes we need, it's very hard to come up with workarounds for gaps in the system.

On the flipside we have Sverchok. A system that requires far more initial knowledge of how to manage arrays of data but that allows for much lower level manupulation. This combined with over 600 nodes (granted some of these are unsupported or unstable) makes it a strong contender still! Also natively supports python scripts AND loops! It can even output multiple separate objects.

Sverchok has a special place in my heart.

If you're interested in having a play with the file below, be sure to grab the latest version of SV from github as it's updated frequently. I do find doing a major update through the addon itself can sometimes cause it to not work anymore so better to just get a new copy if you've not updated in a while.

https://github.com/nortikin/sverchok

I've put nodes in frames so hopefully it makes sense!

There's a main system for the twisted facade elements and there's a section to get the grid of columns to fit within the footprint.

There's an object called "BUILDING SHAPE" which is a 2D general layout object you can use to define the shape of the building. This is the main input to the node tree.

Would you be interested in more Sverchok content? It's a good one for your toolbelt!

Grab the file