Planar Surface Component

Hi,

I am a little disappointed that the planar surface component doesn´t work like the used icon is promising.

The icon shows a bunge of curves and lines which are overlapping at the end. Of course they need to be planar, but in GH it does not work with overlapping curves.

Is there a trick to activate this function? I hoped this component will work similiar to the "boolean" curve in Rhino which creates a closed curve based on a bunge of overlapping curves - no matter if open or closed.

any tips or workarounds are welcome....

thanks

Tags: closed, curves, open, planar, surface

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Permalink Reply by Mariana Schetini Basso on March 2, 2013 at 9:40pm

Felipe.

thank you so much! I'll test your definitions this Sunday, I'm sure that it'll help me to understand many errors =) If I do something different I'll post it here, TKSS!

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Permalink Reply by Felipe Romero on March 3, 2013 at 8:26am

You're welcome. The logic is the following: you have three polylines, the original polyline, the polyline out (offset) and the polyline rotated.

Forms a plane with points 1 and 2 of the outside polyline and point 1 of the original polyline in both directions, the intersection of these planes will give you a new line. Forms a plane with points 2 and 3 of the outside polyline and the point of intersection of the new line in both directions, the intersection of these planes will give you a new line ...

The disadvantage of this definition is that you have to copy and paste this part for each "floor" that you have

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Permalink Reply by Mariana Schetini Basso on March 15, 2013 at 12:28pm

Felipe, do you know why are this curves not planar? I only used the Project component despite being the wrong way cause the result is not equal as the original curves, you know? Could you take a look? I was trying to make a layout for lasercutting.

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