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Best way to model repeating balcony?

daviiiiidave
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Hey Com,

i just wanna ask you something, cause its im possible for me to handle the file by myself.

So on:
I got some socialhousing to work on. 140 Flats with 140 balkonies. As wished we made an balkony steel panel with a pixel pattern. Now i got 4 panels each balkony x 140 balkonies = 560 panels (https://ibb.co/hikr1G).

I made an seperate file with the balkony and put it as an x-ref in the original working file. The panel is made in Rhino/Grasshopper and imported as an 3DM.
Its now as an object placed in the balkony file.

Best way to do it?

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Anonymous
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My 2cents would be to create it as a module and then hotlink it back into the main file.

This way if you ever needed to amend the balcony, u only need to do it once.