Sprinkler
Explain further. The spacings in the drawing are not any of your "constant" values. Do you mean to set maximum values at those you list, rather than those built into that code?
@saber.elkassas wrote:
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I just want to make the values between the sprinkler is constant either 3 or 4 m .. for example if the user selected ordinary, then the lisp with distribute the sprinkler at every 4 m over x and 3 m over y .. and maintain a maximum spacing 2.3 m to the wall for light and ordinary and 1.85 m for extra hazard.
So, not what the sample drawing showed after all, and now with an added element. Next question: Where it's not the same spacing in both directions, do you always want the 4m in the X direction and the 3m in the Y direction, regardless of the proportions of the space? Or should the 4m spacing be in the direction of the longer dimension of the space [whether that's X or Y], which I expect would usually be a better outcome? Or maybe some calculation could figure in which orientation the spacing to the walls would be closer to equal in both directions.
Aside from the problem of being a moving target, your new set of criteria make it pretty much impossible to make a generic routine. Suppose a room is shaped like this:
What should the orientation of the sprinkler head rows/columns? If not at equal spacing in both directions, which direction should have the longer spacing? The spacing that divides at one dimension to work well with distances from the walls on one side [assuming that being parallel to some edge is desirable] will be wrong for the other side. Etc., etc. How could a routine be instructed to determine such things?
And the original routine uses ARRAY to make columns and rows of heads. Even with an unambiguous room shape, that would not be able to do, for example, this:
I suspect you can do a whole lot of layouts manually in far less time than it would take someone to come up with something to handle all possibilities that your criteria would allow. I suggest an Array at the appropriate [maximum] spacings for the hazard level, covering a larger area than the room, which you can slide around and tweak the column and row spacings in, giving it multiple-of-0.25m values, until it "lands" at an arrangement in which those inside the room fall in what seem the best places. Then Explode the Array object and delete the heads outside the room.
Another question: What should the spacings be for the Combustible/Non-combustible choices within the Light hazard level? Or do you want only one Light setting, without that choice under it?
@saber.elkassas wrote:
.... The same existing values and options are ok and still valid. ....
That doesn't quite answer my question, though it seems to confirm that you still want the Combustible/Non-Combustible choice within the Light-hazard category. The values in the earlier code are for spacing [always the same in both directions] and maximum area that a head may cover. Your settings as described are for spacing [in some cases different in the two directions] and maximum distance from walls around the perimeter. What should those be for Light-Combustible vs. Light-Non-combustible? I assume one of them should use the values you described originally for [just plain] Light, but which one, and what should they be for the other one?
@saber.elkassas wrote:
I think you concern is related to the 2.3 m requirement .. .... room with with length (or width) of 9.2 m with light hazard .. then it can be cover by two heads spaced by 4.6 m .... which us acceptable. ....
No, my latest concern was about the difference between Combustible and Non-combustible within the "Light" hazard category.
But now you also have a contradiction: 4.6m as a head spacing would not be acceptable under item 1 in Message 13.
